| Saugus Ironworks |
15 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor |
14 |
canonical |
| Liberty ships and SS Schenectady |
11 |
canonical |
| 1973 Arab oil embargo |
11 |
canonical |
| V-22 Osprey aircraft |
10 |
canonical |
| Andrew Mellon all-aluminum Pierce Arrow automobile |
10 |
canonical |
| World Trade Center collapse |
10 |
canonical |
| POSCO (Korea) government-built steel mill surpassing Nippon Steel |
9 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle cost overrun |
9 |
canonical |
| Continuous casting and steel industry capacity collapse |
8 |
canonical |
| Watertown Arsenal titanium development |
8 |
canonical |
| Soviet Alpha-class submarine |
8 |
canonical |
| 1984-1985 Japan Manufacturing Study |
8 |
canonical |
| MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity - Steel Industry Study |
8 |
canonical |
| Basic oxygen furnace introduction in Austria |
7 |
canonical |
| British Welding Institute founding |
7 |
canonical |
| Air Force Buy-to-Fly Ratio in Aircraft Manufacturing |
7 |
canonical |
| NASA X-33 space plane |
7 |
canonical |
| Hyatt Regency walkway collapse |
7 |
canonical |
| Northridge earthquake |
7 |
canonical |
| Lakshmi Mittal steel mill acquisition strategy |
7 |
canonical |
| USS Thresher |
6 |
canonical |
| 1980 technical exchange with Soviet welding scientists |
6 |
canonical |
| `Liberty ships and SS Schenectady` |
6 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle Challenger |
6 |
canonical |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
6 |
canonical |
| 1930s all-aluminum Duesenberg automobiles |
6 |
canonical |
| Wright brothers' aircraft engine |
6 |
canonical |
| Chaparral Steel |
6 |
canonical |
| Titanic |
6 |
canonical |
| Boeing 787 all-composite aircraft |
6 |
canonical |
| USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) |
5 |
canonical |
| `World Trade Center collapse` |
5 |
canonical |
| Alvin and Sea Cliff deep-ocean research submersible development |
5 |
canonical |
| Naval Air Rework Facility titanium engine case repair |
5 |
canonical |
| US steel industry productivity transformation (1980-1990) |
5 |
canonical |
| Gordon Forward mini mill competition strategy |
5 |
canonical |
| Davenport Iowa plate stress relief by hydraulic jacking |
5 |
canonical |
| Sony Walkman and neodymium-iron-boron magnets |
5 |
canonical |
| Pentium 6 / Early 1990s large-format chip bonding |
5 |
canonical |
| Carbon nanotubes structural applications (overpromised research) |
5 |
canonical |
| Black Hawk helicopter tail rotor washer failure |
5 |
canonical |
| Helicopter engine peashooter nitriding failure and lawsuit |
5 |
canonical |
| Rolls Royce M250 BLISK (bladed disk) for helicopters |
5 |
canonical |
| Audi all-aluminum automobiles |
5 |
canonical |
| National Aerospace Plane |
5 |
canonical |
| HY-80 and HY-100 steel development |
5 |
canonical |
| Iron whiskers (1950s screw dislocation studies) |
5 |
canonical |
| Japan-US Oil and Steel Embargo (World War II) |
5 |
canonical |
| Boeing 777 advanced composites program |
5 |
canonical |
| Argon oxygen decarbonization (AOD) process development |
5 |
canonical |
| BMW i3 carbon fiber automobile design |
5 |
canonical |
| 1558 English law against tree-felling for charcoal |
4 |
canonical |
| HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship) |
4 |
canonical |
| Pilkington float glass process |
4 |
canonical |
| USS Seawolf HY-100 hydrogen cracking |
4 |
canonical |
| U.S. Navy heavy-section titanium welding (1980s) |
4 |
canonical |
| US Navy all-stainless steel submarine program (AL-6X alloy) |
4 |
canonical |
| Manhattan Project infrastructure |
4 |
canonical |
| Armco Steel continuous casting decision |
4 |
canonical |
| US Steel industry decline and management failure |
4 |
canonical |
| Japanese steel industry dominance 1970s |
4 |
canonical |
| Steel mini mills rise (1970s–1990s) |
4 |
canonical |
| Naval Surface Warfare Center particle beam weapon development |
4 |
canonical |
| Polyethylene manufacturing and hula hoop market development |
4 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's hot dog cooker stress corrosion cracking |
4 |
canonical |
| 3/8 inch rebar rolling mill productivity case |
4 |
canonical |
| SR-71 Blackbird |
4 |
canonical |
| Titanium combustor fires in jet engines |
4 |
canonical |
| High-temperature superconductors hype and failure to solve power transmission |
4 |
canonical |
| MIT Berylliosis cases |
4 |
canonical |
| Bell Helicopter mast hydrogen cracking prevention |
4 |
canonical |
| Manwich hot water tank stress corrosion cracking |
4 |
canonical |
| Technetium-99m cardiac imaging (Eagar's personal case) |
4 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney single-crystal turbine blade |
4 |
canonical |
| Kresge Auditorium lead roof |
4 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle External Tank (2219 aluminum) |
4 |
canonical |
| Washington Monument design safety factor |
4 |
canonical |
| Ford F-150 all-aluminum body program |
4 |
canonical |
| Mesabi Range iron ore depletion |
4 |
canonical |
| China rare earth embargo on Japan |
4 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen innovator's dilemma research—steel mill cost data |
4 |
canonical |
| Air Force Mach 17 air-breathing aircraft program |
4 |
canonical |
| General Electric boiling water reactor stress corrosion cracking |
4 |
canonical |
| Big Inch Pipeline |
4 |
canonical |
| Alexander Kielland disaster |
4 |
canonical |
| Pennsylvania cement truck fatality and regulatory failure |
4 |
canonical |
| Harley-Davidson aluminum cylinder head casting defects |
4 |
canonical |
| Audi-Alcoa aluminum vehicle development partnership |
4 |
canonical |
| Visby-class corvette (Swedish composite frigate) |
4 |
canonical |
| Allegheny Ludlum Steel—1980s profitability under Dick Simmons |
4 |
canonical |
| X-33 hydrogen tank adhesive joint failures |
4 |
canonical |
| Attleboro gold alloy and casting operations |
3 |
canonical |
| Corning float glass dual-surface manufacturing |
3 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747-400 catalytic converter titanium welding failure |
3 |
canonical |
| Draper Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) prototype welding |
3 |
canonical |
| Aberdeen Proving Ground kinetic energy penetrator armor defeat (1984-1985) |
3 |
canonical |
| Alaskan Pipeline construction |
3 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Davenport aluminum rolling mill thickness variation |
3 |
canonical |
| King Street Bridge failure |
3 |
canonical |
| New York City building crack near George Washington Bridge |
3 |
canonical |
| LIGO construction and welding |
3 |
canonical |
| British iron industry wood shortage crisis |
3 |
canonical |
| Jamestown glassworks |
3 |
canonical |
| Motorola Boynton Beach pager manufacturing |
3 |
canonical |
| Ford Mustang assembly line non-start defect |
3 |
canonical |
| Blood diamonds civil war |
3 |
canonical |
| Welding handbook electrode consumption survey |
3 |
canonical |
| Automobile spot welding quality |
3 |
canonical |
| Kaydon bearing conformity failure and helicopter crashes |
3 |
canonical |
| V-22 Osprey Ship Four crash and rigged court of inquiry |
3 |
canonical |
| Langley helicopter supersonic blade tip experiment |
3 |
canonical |
| 50,000-ton Wyman-Gordon forging press structural crack |
3 |
canonical |
| 7,000-ton forging press weld repair |
3 |
canonical |
| Optical fiber manufacturing (Corning) |
3 |
canonical |
| Metallic glass (met glass) transformer sheet production |
3 |
canonical |
| Bell Labs transistor development |
3 |
canonical |
| US Steel industry continuous casting adoption failure |
3 |
canonical |
| 30-mile pipeline brittle fracture |
3 |
canonical |
| Wooden gas distribution pipes |
3 |
canonical |
| Pacemaker battery case corrosion |
3 |
canonical |
| Sprague's law on material properties |
3 |
canonical |
| Williams's law on material costs |
3 |
canonical |
| Aloha Airlines Flight 243 |
3 |
canonical |
| USS Battleship turret hydrogen cracking repair (Puerto Rico, ~1980) |
3 |
canonical |
| Ford Taurus air conditioner compressor |
3 |
canonical |
| USS Belknap collision and fire |
3 |
canonical |
| Backofen superplasticity rediscovery |
3 |
canonical |
| Deepwater Horizon / BP Macondo well blowout |
3 |
canonical |
| Soviet aluminum dumping and Alcoa/Norsk Hydro market collapse |
3 |
canonical |
| Artificial hip replacement failures - early iterations |
3 |
canonical |
| Baseball bat aluminum alloy development |
3 |
canonical |
| Farberware stainless steel cookware pot cracking |
3 |
canonical |
| Neighbor's water main leak and Boston Gas pipe discovery |
3 |
canonical |
| U.S. Navy titanium submarine program decision |
3 |
canonical |
| Concorde skin temperature limitation |
3 |
canonical |
| Beryllium toxicity discovery at MIT |
3 |
canonical |
| Three Mile Island |
3 |
canonical |
| Boeing Friction-Stir Welding Machine Investment |
3 |
canonical |
| Lead pipe in residential plumbing |
3 |
canonical |
| US Navy nuclear submarine steel pipe corrosion (30-year ship life) |
3 |
canonical |
| Concorde supersonic transport operations and economics |
3 |
canonical |
| `Saugus Ironworks` |
3 |
canonical |
| Composite submarine repairability failure |
3 |
canonical |
| Etruscan gold bead diffusion bonding |
3 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's steel company experience |
3 |
canonical |
| Continuous caster breakout |
3 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel's last large open hearth furnace |
3 |
canonical |
| Seawolf submarine hydrogen cracking |
3 |
canonical |
| Frank Whittle turbine engine development |
3 |
canonical |
| Aircraft landing gear and turbine engine shaft vacuum arc melting |
3 |
canonical |
| SSN-21 Sea Wolf hull cracking problem |
3 |
canonical |
| Ford Taurus aluminum body cost analysis |
3 |
canonical |
| Ship dismantling in Bangladesh |
3 |
canonical |
| Honeywell New Jersey facility morale and management crisis |
3 |
canonical |
| Kennecott Bingham Canyon copper mine operations |
3 |
canonical |
| Sweden cadmium electrical switch fire hazard |
3 |
canonical |
| Molten Metal Technologies |
3 |
canonical |
| Nashua Corporation board collapse and acquisition failure |
3 |
canonical |
| Air Force acoustic emission crack-growth flight test |
3 |
canonical |
| X-33 space plane |
3 |
canonical |
| Pellini explosion bulge test development |
3 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney 1975 laser disk additive manufacturing experiment |
3 |
canonical |
| Gulf of Mexico oil pipeline defect |
3 |
canonical |
| PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) brass fitting failures |
3 |
canonical |
| First Gulf War helicopter engine failures from sand ingestion |
3 |
canonical |
| Thomas Edison concrete homes |
3 |
canonical |
| 1973 Honda Civic corrosion failure |
3 |
canonical |
| Single-crystal turbine blades (GE/Pratt & Whitney) |
3 |
canonical |
| Egyptian obelisk engineering mystery (Al Bakun / Wendell Wilkenning fracture analysis) |
3 |
canonical |
| North Andover hot isostatic press explosion |
3 |
canonical |
| Edison, New Jersey gas pipeline explosion |
3 |
canonical |
| Depleted uranium armor penetrators and Gulf War environmental contamination |
3 |
canonical |
| NYC titanium heat exchanger fire |
3 |
canonical |
| Cow magnet ingestion in livestock |
3 |
canonical |
| US Steel price control by President Kennedy (1962) |
3 |
canonical |
| Cruise missile graphite engine |
3 |
canonical |
| Massachusetts lead solder ban |
3 |
canonical |
| Hubble Space Telescope mirror defect |
3 |
canonical |
| Air Force blisk (bladed disc) welding development |
3 |
canonical |
| Soviet titanium electro-slag welding technology |
3 |
canonical |
| HMS Sheffield |
3 |
canonical |
| Helms Project penstock |
3 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh Plate Glass mile-long facility |
2 |
canonical |
| Glass Flowers degradation |
2 |
canonical |
| Israeli Corvette propeller blade bolt failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Navy HY130 development sunk-cost fallacy |
2 |
canonical |
| Boeing titanium part certification testing |
2 |
canonical |
| *not a case* — course module description |
2 |
canonical |
| General Electric titanium compressor case electron beam welding porosity |
2 |
canonical |
| Soviet titanium submarine (Alpha-class) creep-fatigue failures |
2 |
canonical |
| Deep TIG (Deep Gas Tungsten Arc) development for thick-section horizontal welding |
2 |
canonical |
| Naval Research Laboratory fatigue-creep interaction cracking |
2 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat quality control measurement resistance |
2 |
canonical |
| MRAP vehicle armor selection and development |
2 |
canonical |
| Iraq War Humvee IED vulnerability and MRAP armor development |
2 |
canonical |
| Naval shipyard X-ray inspection inefficiency study |
2 |
canonical |
| USS Nautilus heat exchanger design |
2 |
canonical |
| Anodized aluminum medical laser instrument design |
2 |
canonical |
| Nucor/Chaparral mini-mill competitive challenge to integrated steel mills |
2 |
canonical |
| Flint Michigan lead in drinking water |
2 |
canonical |
| Mercury thermometer lab spill protocol change |
2 |
canonical |
| Indian businessman murdered for gold shark shirt |
2 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle main tank friction stir welded aluminum |
2 |
canonical |
| Mushroomed hammer head eye injuries |
2 |
canonical |
| SS Great Britain propeller shaft forging |
2 |
canonical |
| Submarine first deep dive stress relief mechanism |
2 |
canonical |
| Trolley wire manufacturing by Conform process |
2 |
canonical |
| 3D-printed solder droplet circuit boards research |
2 |
canonical |
| 1975 Pratt & Whitney laser turbine disk demonstration |
2 |
canonical |
| US copper penny material transition |
2 |
canonical |
| General Electric/General Motors neodymium supply shortage threat |
2 |
canonical |
| GE samarium cobalt magnet development |
2 |
canonical |
| Turbine engine shroud blade tip wear and repair |
2 |
canonical |
| AT&T telephone network mechanical switch failure risk |
2 |
canonical |
| IBM copper interconnect diffusion barrier innovation |
2 |
canonical |
| Motorola Defense Division classified large-format chip bonding |
2 |
canonical |
| Doctoral exam vacuum reverberatory furnace design error |
2 |
canonical |
| Copperweld continuous caster breakout |
2 |
canonical |
| Bismuth-tin solder replacement causing steel scrap contamination |
2 |
canonical |
| Voyager spacecraft iridium thermoelectric generator |
2 |
canonical |
| High-temperature turbine blade rhenium content escalation |
2 |
canonical |
| Delrin (polyformaldehyde) toilet valve failures and exploding toilets |
2 |
canonical |
| Rhodesian chromite embargo and laundering |
2 |
canonical |
| `British Welding Institute founding` |
2 |
canonical |
| `WWII Welded Merchant Vessel Structural Failures (Fleet-Wide)` |
2 |
canonical |
| America's Cup design philosophy and lightweight failure margins |
2 |
canonical |
| Sapphire substrate manufacturing for LED market dominance |
2 |
canonical |
| Polyacetylene conductive polymers |
2 |
canonical |
| Ceramic engine development (1990s ceramics hype) |
2 |
canonical |
| High-temperature superconductivity for high-field magnets and levitated trains |
2 |
canonical |
| New England shoe industry decline |
2 |
canonical |
| Bosco Lee Morton Thiokol O-ring engineering decision |
2 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle O-ring failure |
2 |
canonical |
| America's Cup hydraulic cylinder stress corrosion cracking |
2 |
canonical |
| Radium cocktail consumer poisoning (1920s) |
2 |
canonical |
| 7500-ton forging press failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Japanese low-sulfur A36 steel market disruption |
2 |
canonical |
| Alaska Pipeline brittle fracture risk assessment |
2 |
canonical |
| Corrugated stainless steel gas tubing lightning fires |
2 |
canonical |
| Sango Bath (Saint-Gobain) founding and long-term strategy |
2 |
canonical |
| Black light bulb eye injury case |
2 |
canonical |
| Freshly made light bulb strength demonstration |
2 |
canonical |
| Brooklyn Navy Yard shaped-charge discovery |
2 |
canonical |
| John Hancock Building glass cracking failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - transparent aluminum whale tank |
2 |
canonical |
| Salem Harbor steam generator explosion |
2 |
canonical |
| Alcoa v. aluminum extrusion manufacturer (Boeing wing spar data theft) |
2 |
canonical |
| POSCO continuous caster roll refurbishment |
2 |
canonical |
| Shoe factory boiler explosion (Brockton, Massachusetts) |
2 |
canonical |
| Ohio River steamboat boiler explosion |
2 |
canonical |
| Steel yard identification via spark testing (1900s-1960s) |
2 |
canonical |
| `Pittsburgh Reduction Company / Alcoa environmental pollution` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Wooden gas distribution pipes` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Century-old carbon steel gas pipe fractures` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Corrugated stainless steel gas pipe lightning strike fires` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Improved lightning-resistant flexible gas tubing development` |
2 |
canonical |
| Westinghouse Bettis inconel electron beam weld cracking specification |
2 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh Reduction Company / Alcoa environmental pollution |
2 |
canonical |
| Aluminum brake calipers (automotive) |
2 |
canonical |
| Accel trolley wire for Boston-New Haven electrified rail upgrade |
2 |
canonical |
| California transmission line wildfires |
2 |
canonical |
| Aerogel as structural material (New York Times article case) |
2 |
canonical |
| Allied Signal amorphous metal foil patent dispute |
2 |
canonical |
| Graphite pressure vessel failure with sulfuric acid |
2 |
canonical |
| USS Patrick Henry hull degradation |
2 |
canonical |
| 1985 RPG armor penetration demonstration |
2 |
canonical |
| Alcoa monopoly and price fixing with Dow Chemical |
2 |
canonical |
| Ceramic coating on turbine blades thermal stress |
2 |
canonical |
| Doctoral research on ceramic-metal joint porosity optimization |
2 |
canonical |
| `Northridge earthquake` |
2 |
canonical |
| 19th-century European steel phosphorus and sulfur brittleness |
2 |
canonical |
| Czechoslovak high-phosphorus ore steel cracking |
2 |
canonical |
| Turbine blade electron-beam repair and preheating |
2 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney niobium alloy development failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Josephson effect discovery |
2 |
canonical |
| CH-53/MH-53 helicopter washer corrosion problem |
2 |
canonical |
| New England Aquarium exterior panel corrosion |
2 |
canonical |
| U.S. Air Force net-shape manufacturing initiative |
2 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat welding humidity specification violation |
2 |
canonical |
| Boomer Submarine Trident Tube Retrofits |
2 |
canonical |
| Magnesium anode nickel contamination failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Egon Orowan dislocation discovery (rug anecdote) |
2 |
canonical |
| High-temperature superconductor critical current measurement error |
2 |
canonical |
| Niobium-titanium superconductor development for high-energy physics |
2 |
canonical |
| Wire drawing thesis project on superconducting wire production |
2 |
canonical |
| American Superconductor commercial viability (1995–present) |
2 |
canonical |
| All-aluminum automobile body cost analysis (early 1990s) |
2 |
canonical |
| Navy Tributyltin (TBT) paint environmental damage |
2 |
canonical |
| MIT titanium flame-cutting environmental incident |
2 |
canonical |
| Tank explosion at Pennzoil Oil City refinery |
2 |
canonical |
| Belmont elementary school oil tank leak |
2 |
canonical |
| Alabama aluminum foundry freeze-up |
2 |
canonical |
| Alcoa aluminum potline freeze-up explosive demolition |
2 |
canonical |
| Boston Big Dig |
2 |
canonical |
| Private jet friction-welded titanium startup |
2 |
canonical |
| New Orleans Canal Levee Failure |
2 |
canonical |
| USS Iowa gun turret explosion |
2 |
canonical |
| Aluminum casting aircraft engine repair consulting case |
2 |
canonical |
| Johnson & Johnson laser surgery instrument coating |
2 |
canonical |
| US Army materials study |
2 |
canonical |
| Boeing aircraft disc weight savings analysis (1990 LGO study) |
2 |
canonical |
| Nimitz-class carrier weight creep |
2 |
canonical |
| Coca-Cola can manufacturing |
2 |
canonical |
| GTD-111 superalloy patent dispute |
2 |
canonical |
| Caroline Joseph corrosion testing project |
2 |
canonical |
| Evanston Wyoming hydrogen sulfide gas field operations |
2 |
canonical |
| U.S. copper tubing manufacturing |
2 |
canonical |
| Norwegian chlorine elimination proposal |
2 |
canonical |
| Congressional DNA-destruction material ban proposal |
2 |
canonical |
| Chinese aluminum overproduction and market displacement |
2 |
canonical |
| 1980s-1990s Wyoming coal mining operations |
2 |
canonical |
| American Electric Power Texas transmission line investment |
2 |
canonical |
| Hydrogen vehicle safety concerns (Obama hydrogen economy) |
2 |
canonical |
| Johnny Slokum aluminum-water hydrogen generation |
2 |
canonical |
| de Havilland Comet |
2 |
canonical |
| Johnson & Johnson surgical instruments consulting |
2 |
canonical |
| Stainless steel dinnerware bleach pitting (personal anecdote) |
2 |
canonical |
| Reynolds Aluminum foil manufacturing |
2 |
canonical |
| WWII Welded Merchant Vessel Structural Failures (Fleet-Wide) |
2 |
canonical |
| Naval Research Lab Laser Welding of HY-80 |
2 |
canonical |
| Japanese heavy-section electron beam welding project |
2 |
canonical |
| US Steel industry decline |
2 |
canonical |
| Boeing aluminum wing manufacturing waste |
2 |
canonical |
| SS Libra LNG vessel tail shaft failure |
2 |
canonical |
| 1980s all-ceramic engine development initiative |
2 |
canonical |
| Catalytic converter cold-start emissions problem |
2 |
canonical |
| Corrugated stainless steel gas pipe lightning strike fires |
2 |
canonical |
| A106 pipe standards conflict |
2 |
canonical |
| Margaret MacVicar niobium tunneling experiments |
2 |
canonical |
| TF-30 jet engine rebuilds from Vietnam |
2 |
canonical |
| 2008 financial crisis / derivatives collapse |
2 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney v. Chromalloy lawsuit |
2 |
canonical |
| Varian cross-field amplifier brazing failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney turbine blade grinder and Woods metal fixturing |
2 |
canonical |
| Optical fiber transatlantic repeater reduction |
2 |
canonical |
| Bob Rose light bulb classroom demonstration |
2 |
canonical |
| Sylvania light bulb glass strength demonstration |
2 |
canonical |
| Eyeglass hinges additive manufacturing case study |
2 |
canonical |
| Post-WWII cold heading machine phosphate-stearate surface treatment |
2 |
canonical |
| Desktop Metal eyeglass hinges |
2 |
canonical |
| Boston Navy Shipyard destroyer boiler pipe weld (stainless-to-chromemoly transition) |
2 |
canonical |
| Sioux City DC-10 rotor failure |
2 |
canonical |
| US Airways Flight 1549 (Sully) |
2 |
canonical |
| Rensselaer Hydrogen Diffusion Experiments (1950s–1960s) |
2 |
canonical |
| US Steel Price Rollback |
2 |
canonical |
| Raytheon Aegis missile part aluminum bending incident |
2 |
canonical |
| NASA deep-space mission plutonium-fueled thermoelectric generators with iridium containment |
2 |
canonical |
| Conform process development |
2 |
canonical |
| `King Street Bridge failure` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Sub-Zero refrigerator hinge failure` |
2 |
canonical |
| Black iron pipe corrosion rate field observation |
2 |
canonical |
| Corvette magnesium engine cradle corrosion study |
2 |
canonical |
| `X-33 space plane` |
2 |
canonical |
| `Sony Walkman and neodymium-iron-boron magnets` |
2 |
canonical |
| Bell Helicopter rotor blade corrosion fatigue failure (Brazil) |
2 |
canonical |
| Aluminum automotive applications (1990s Ford Taurus vs. Toyota Camry) |
2 |
canonical |
| Lithography semiconductor machining precision problem |
2 |
canonical |
| Caltech rapid solidification metallic ribbon research |
2 |
canonical |
| Bulk metallic glass golf clubs |
2 |
canonical |
| Barge machine turnings fire |
2 |
canonical |
| Hot isostatic pressing development at Battelle Memorial Institute |
2 |
canonical |
| ALVIN submarine pressure hull cost overrun |
2 |
canonical |
| Aluminum silicon carbide brake calipers |
2 |
canonical |
| Speaker's home gas service sleeving (three-quarter inch pipe) |
2 |
canonical |
| Cold bonding of integrated circuits and transistors |
2 |
canonical |
| Boston Edison stainless steel corrosion |
2 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Tennessee lead-contaminated aluminum beverage can recycling failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Pearl Harbor attack |
2 |
canonical |
| IBM mainframe and salaried workforce restructuring |
2 |
canonical |
| `Tree stand aluminum turnbuckle lawsuit` |
2 |
canonical |
| Atomic bomb recovery off Spain |
2 |
canonical |
| Alaska Pipeline Welding Union Control |
2 |
canonical |
| Electron beam melter fatal electrocution |
2 |
canonical |
| Brewery consulting case (upstate New York) |
2 |
canonical |
| NCAA baseball bat safety regulation |
2 |
canonical |
| Magnesium automobile wheels corrosion in road salt |
2 |
canonical |
| Cardiac guide wire lawsuit |
2 |
canonical |
| Percy Bridgeman high-pressure materials research |
2 |
canonical |
| Intel high-power chip thermal management (Pentium/Itanium) |
2 |
canonical |
| Quincy LNG tanker aluminum tank skirts |
2 |
canonical |
| Titanium electroslag weld at Oregon Graduate Center |
2 |
canonical |
| Aluminum baseball bat |
2 |
canonical |
| NIST competitiveness vs. productivity misunderstanding |
2 |
canonical |
| Nine-month delayed hydrogen crack (High Sierra mountains) |
2 |
canonical |
| American Airlines composite rudder separation |
2 |
canonical |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory silver magnet winding (WWII uranium enrichment) |
2 |
canonical |
| MIT conflict of interest in Molten Metal promotion |
2 |
canonical |
| Miami Art Museum hanging garden failure |
2 |
canonical |
| Johnson & Johnson electrocauterization device corrosion failure |
2 |
canonical |
| F-21 jet fighter engine diffusion bonding development |
2 |
canonical |
| Army brake shoes fraud and specification conflict |
2 |
canonical |
| Brockton Massachusetts steam boiler explosion |
2 |
canonical |
| Bay Bridge California corrosion-induced hydrogen cracking |
2 |
canonical |
| Watertown Arsenal Charpy bar standards |
2 |
canonical |
| Norton asphalt reclamation carbide-tip braze joint |
2 |
canonical |
| Ford catalytic converter electron beam welding |
2 |
canonical |
| `Brewery consulting case (upstate New York)` |
1 |
canonical |
| Surgical scissors stainless steel teaching demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| `Steel mini mills rise (1970s–1990s)` (overarching); specific Chaparral cluster also matches `Gordon Forward mini mill competition strategy` and `Continuous casting and steel industry capacity collapse` |
1 |
canonical |
| `3/8 inch rebar rolling mill productivity case` |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel vs concrete parking garage cost cycle |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boeing door product center cost accounting failure` (matches); also relates to `Boeing door product center manufacturing` and `Boeing aircraft door manufacturing and cost analysis` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Nucor/Chaparral mini-mill competitive challenge to integrated steel mills` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor`; also `Big steel companies decline through market abandonment` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Gordon Forward mini mill competition strategy` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ford Motor Company executive dining room hamburger story` |
1 |
canonical |
| Sleepy Hollow Glass bullseye demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| `Sango Bath (Saint-Gobain) founding and long-term strategy` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pittsburgh Plate Glass mile-long factory` (also `Pittsburgh Plate Glass mile-long facility`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ford Motor Company and Libby Owens Ford float glass development` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pilkington float glass process` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Jenna Germany historical window` |
1 |
canonical |
| Corning trade-secret manufacturing culture |
1 |
canonical |
| `Corning Willow Glass development` (best match — Corning thin/flexible LCD glass) |
1 |
canonical |
| Liquid crystal display glass-stack architecture |
1 |
canonical |
| `Glass fiber humidity degradation in fiberglass manufacturing` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Bob Rose light bulb classroom demonstration` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Optical fiber manufacturing (Corning)` |
1 |
canonical |
| England 16th-17th century deforestation and energy crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Early American iron and glass industries—British energy crisis relocation |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft crankshaft bolt tensioning |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747-400 fuselage welding porosity issue |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Nautilus hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel I-beam rolling and Manhattan high-rises |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel cost structure 1970s vs. 2010s |
1 |
canonical |
| MP35N alloy applications and limits |
1 |
canonical |
| Accel trolley wire copper-silver casting |
1 |
canonical |
| Tremont Nail Company forged and cut nails |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT-Caltech origin story (Noyes-Walker-Millikan) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pole vault composite failure analysis` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Oil rig fire` |
1 |
canonical |
| Early binder jetting porosity defect |
1 |
canonical |
| `3D metal printing propeller test for US Navy` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Titanic` |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese sword smithing (student / Tarkanian) |
1 |
canonical |
| Antique European doorknobs (student paper) |
1 |
canonical |
| `BMW i3 carbon fiber automobile design` |
1 |
canonical |
| *not a case* — historical quotation |
1 |
canonical |
| Upstate New York brewery (Tom's first consulting job, 1975) |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet titanium electroslag welding technology |
1 |
canonical |
| Foreign technology acquisition at David Taylor Naval Shipyard |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney laser disc / laser glazing |
1 |
canonical |
| Caterpillar weld inspection student project (2015) |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Cole underwater hull repair |
1 |
canonical |
| Brooklyn Bridge caissons - decompression sickness |
1 |
canonical |
| Rocky Flats nuclear warhead welding - altitude pressure effects |
1 |
canonical |
| Ambrose Monell and INCO Sudbury ore |
1 |
canonical |
| White gold class ring hardening consultation |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747 long geronde beam distortion |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup hydraulic cylinder failure (7,500 psi) |
1 |
canonical |
| Panama Canal / Suez Canal / D-Day artificial harbors |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Building 35 Metals Processing construction (John Wulff) |
1 |
canonical |
| Alexander Slocum hydroelectric-desalination integration concept |
1 |
canonical |
| Old Ironsides oak wood repair delay |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval minesweeper wood construction requirement |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing-Airbus duopoly and government subsidy |
1 |
canonical |
| Semiconductor fab capital-cost escalation |
1 |
canonical |
| Saugus Ironworks; British iron industry wood shortage crisis; England 16th-17th century deforestation and energy crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Andrew Carnegie wealth and steel industry founding |
1 |
canonical |
| Single-crystal turbine blades (GE/Pratt & Whitney); Pratt & Whitney single-crystal turbine blade; Modern single-crystal turbine blade casting (core shift defect) |
1 |
canonical |
| Accel trolley wire for Boston-New Haven electrified rail upgrade; Amtrak New Haven to Boston trolley wire; Trolley wire (Boston-New Hampshire connection); Trolley wire manufacturing by Conform process |
1 |
canonical |
| Liberty ships and SS Schenectady; 1940s welded ship cracking; WWII Welded Merchant Vessel Structural Failures (Fleet-Wide); Navy brittle fracture study - welded vessels and ships |
1 |
canonical |
| 2010 China rare earth embargo on Japan; China rare earth embargo on Japan; Rare earth element supply chain disruption; US-Japan rare earth metals embargo |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet scandium aluminum alloys research; Sumitomo scandium oxide production initiative |
1 |
canonical |
| 1973 Arab oil embargo; Oil embargo supply chain disruption |
1 |
canonical |
| Tank explosion at Pennzoil Oil City refinery; Oil City refinery storage tank explosion; Pennzoil Oil City tank explosion and facility; Pennzoil plant environmental regulation case; Pennzoil tank farm contamination; Oil City refinery explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil City river oil transport and pollution |
1 |
canonical |
| BP Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer failure; Deepwater Horizon / BP Macondo well blowout |
1 |
canonical |
| US Steel industry decline; US Steel industry decline and management failure; US Steel Industry Overcapacity Crisis; Big steel companies decline through market abandonment |
1 |
canonical |
| Colombian civil war drug financing (rebel funding parallel to conflict diamonds) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rhodesian chrome embargo; Rhodesian chromite embargo and laundering |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead pipe in residential plumbing; Lead pipe creep in historic aqueducts; Lead drainage pipes in residential plumbing; Roman aqueducts |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-tin solder ban and plumbing failures (1978); Massachusetts lead solder ban; Lead-tin solder plumbing toxicity |
1 |
canonical |
| Alaska gold mine arsenic discharge |
1 |
canonical |
| 1925 Toyota lead-acid battery replacement prize |
1 |
canonical |
| Pewter to Britannia metal transition (lead-tin to tin-bismuth) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ellingham diagram and carbon reduction of metal oxides (Sadoway electrochemistry program) |
1 |
canonical |
| Japan-US Oil and Steel Embargo (World War II); Pearl Harbor attack |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM stainless steel high-purity semiconductor piping rejection |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric spot weld adaptive control system |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric adaptive weld control feedback timing failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Welding process invention timeline |
1 |
canonical |
| Resistance spot welding economics |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium welding cleanliness thresholds |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter swashplate seizure |
1 |
canonical |
| USS aircraft carrier steam system weld failure during Grenada invasion |
1 |
canonical |
| Large ship forging fraud and delayed justice |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT engineering curriculum history |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT School of Engineering retreat (mid-1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT machine shop mushroomed tool discovery |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum washer stress-corrosion cracking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Welded steel crane component failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 50,000-ton forging press development (Air Force/Alcoa/Wyman Gordon) |
1 |
canonical |
| Forging press anvil base fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| LNG carrier tail shaft fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force 100,000-ton forging press project |
1 |
canonical |
| Swept-wing fighter aircraft center box fabrication |
1 |
canonical |
| Longfellow Bridge renovation welding consultation |
1 |
canonical |
| Technology Review interview on metal 3D printing (2016) |
1 |
canonical |
| Stereolithography invention (Chuck Hull, mid-1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Cima-Sachs MIT 3D printing invention (late 1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Enzyme strips for blood sugar testing |
1 |
canonical |
| 2005 Philadelphia Amtrak derailment |
1 |
canonical |
| Unnamed aerospace parts 3D printing project (Boulder, Massachusetts, ~2015) |
1 |
canonical |
| `SR-71 Blackbird` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Titanium electroslag weld at Oregon Graduate Center` |
1 |
canonical |
| `U.S. Navy heavy-section titanium submarine program` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Soviet Alpha-class submarine` |
1 |
canonical |
| Watertown Arsenal titanium development (Ti-6Al-4V invention) |
1 |
canonical |
| `U.S. Navy titanium creep-fatigue research (1982 Soviet discovery)` |
1 |
canonical |
| *not a forensic case — a historical reference Tom uses for parallel structure* |
1 |
canonical |
| Silicon nitride ball bearing ceramic flaw sizing |
1 |
canonical |
| Crappy steel and welds failure case |
1 |
canonical |
| New York City underground copper wire capacity crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Lincoln Lab gallium arsenide development under NASA funding |
1 |
canonical |
| Harry Gatos platinum flute consulting (Attleboro precious metals tubing) |
1 |
canonical |
| Military phased-array radar gallium arsenide chip packaging (1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Motorola first-generation cell phone (brick-size flip phone) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nakamura gallium nitride blue LED development |
1 |
canonical |
| Neodymium-iron-boron magnet thermal failure in electric vehicles |
1 |
canonical |
| Digital Alloys Joule printing scientific advisory board (full disclosure) |
1 |
canonical |
| GE Additive Cincinnati jet engine parts facility |
1 |
canonical |
| Concept Blazers titanium racing car parts manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| MMPDS material certification and FAA aerospace qualification process |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 737 MAX |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force turbine engine repair facility operations |
1 |
canonical |
| GE aerospace fuel nozzle additive manufacturing case |
1 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle composite damage |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT faculty mission-to-Mars budget argument (Philadelphia alumni event, ~1994) |
1 |
canonical |
| Apollo program materials spinoffs (gallium arsenide, GPS) |
1 |
canonical |
| Chemical plant explosion in Texas |
1 |
canonical |
| Ongoing litigation case (Houston trial) |
1 |
canonical |
| Digital Alloys Joule Printing process development |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing titanium aerospace machining (buy-to-fly ratio) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney / 1975 laser turbine disk demonstration (background context) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford stamping die failure case study |
1 |
canonical |
| Tesla new-vehicle tooling investment scale |
1 |
canonical |
| Desktop Metal binder jetting (comparative landscape) |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum aerospace-grade cracking in powder bed additive manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Additive manufacturing powder bed part failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Joule printing six-inch part cracking due to thermal gradients |
1 |
canonical |
| Lincoln Electric welding wire / Digital Alloys strategic investment |
1 |
canonical |
| Carbon DLP automotive vertical |
1 |
canonical |
| Stratasys FDM and PolyJet |
1 |
canonical |
| Russian tin stockpile failure (WWII) |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM interconnect density prediction and C4 development |
1 |
canonical |
| Intel chip-on-board packaging transition |
1 |
canonical |
| Cisco Systems PCB manufacturing quality control |
1 |
canonical |
| Intel Chandler Arizona Craig Barrett cubicle culture |
1 |
canonical |
| AMP / Uncas Whitaker level-three connector business |
1 |
canonical |
| China 1984 Hangzhou drainage ditch labor observation |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar quantum mechanics final exam revelation (Kistiakowsky) |
1 |
canonical |
| `BU Management School minority fellowship program` *(matches canon)* |
1 |
canonical |
| `MIT Materials Department tenure discrimination settlement` *(matches canon)* |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar department-head minority and women faculty hiring program (1995-2000) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Materials Department faculty meeting interruption pattern (gendered) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel labor and worker injuries |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel's last open hearth furnace |
1 |
canonical |
| Airbag explosives in steel mill shredding |
1 |
canonical |
| Spruce Goose (Hughes H-4 Hercules) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ashby's age-of-materials plot |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Chipman steel chemistry lineage |
1 |
canonical |
| John Elliott China visit (late 1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT venturi vacuum degassing for steel |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel BOF suicide |
1 |
canonical |
| Carnegie open-hearth scale economies |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing-Airbus subsidy parallel |
1 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen innovator's dilemma research |
1 |
canonical |
| High-strength steel crack-stopper rings for pipelines |
1 |
canonical |
| Alaska gas pipeline nickel alloy feasibility |
1 |
canonical |
| Coolidge tungsten wire process for incandescent light bulbs |
1 |
canonical |
| GE Cleveland wire plant tungsten metallurgy challenges |
1 |
canonical |
| US government low-cost titanium armor program |
1 |
canonical |
| `China rare earth embargo on Japan` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Egyptian obelisk engineering mystery (Al Bakun / Wendell Wilkenning fracture analysis)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `ESSO Manhattan` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ethanol production centrifuge disc failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| Navtech marine hydraulic piston failure (America's Cup yacht) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aluminum baseball bat` |
1 |
canonical |
| New Hampshire sapphire and silicon crystal growth company |
1 |
canonical |
| Solyndra solar cell company failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Canadian solar cell manufacturing facility failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Gary Wennick conductive polymers research talk |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum motors vs. copper generators |
1 |
canonical |
| Structural ceramics for automotive and turbine engines |
1 |
canonical |
| Military vs. civilian gas turbine engine divergence |
1 |
canonical |
| Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT-Harvard 1914-1917 merger and Eastman donation |
1 |
canonical |
| ATM touchscreen wear failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Damascus sword quenching practice (canonical) |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium aircraft part isothermal forging case study |
1 |
canonical |
| Backofen superplasticity rediscovery (canonical) |
1 |
canonical |
| Optical fiber manufacturing (Corning) (canonical) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom's Bethlehem Steel trip reports |
1 |
canonical |
| Alclad aluminum aerospace sheet — roll-bond and continuous-cast clad processes |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval Research Lab ratio analysis diagram |
1 |
canonical |
| Non-sparking copper-beryllium tools for methane-atmosphere mining |
1 |
canonical |
| Portland cement (calcium / dolomite-magnesium chemistry) |
1 |
canonical |
| Magnesium supply, applications, and Dow Chemical cartel |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy super-corroding magnesium composites (Port Hueneme) |
1 |
canonical |
| Magnesium weld stress-corrosion cracking from humidity |
1 |
canonical |
| Magnesium car fire from insurance fraud |
1 |
canonical |
| Blackhawk helicopter high-performance magnesium components |
1 |
canonical |
| `Mexican airline hot corrosion engine failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Fenway Frank hot dog cooker stainless steel failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Destroyer steam line stress corrosion cracking (Gulf War)` |
1 |
canonical |
| Commercial jet engine in-flight failure rate |
1 |
canonical |
| NiCrAlY coating corrosion rate vs. temperature |
1 |
canonical |
| Shape charge development |
1 |
canonical |
| Pennsylvania roof collapses from 1980s snowstorm |
1 |
canonical |
| NASA X-33 space plane composite tank failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Liberty ships and the *SS Schenectady* / *Esso* fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| Quincy Shipyard LNG tanker aluminum sphere skirts |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas pipeline brittle fracture propagation / Alaska gas pipeline feasibility |
1 |
canonical |
| V-22 Osprey crash (Ship 4) |
1 |
canonical |
| Iran hostage rescue helicopter limitations |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747-400 catalytic converter titanium welding "stupid spec |
1 |
canonical |
| MAP gas cylinder drop and bending incidents |
1 |
canonical |
| Fire sprinkler head misuse as coat hook |
1 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh Plate Glass mile-long factory |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford Motor Company and Libby Owens Ford float glass development |
1 |
canonical |
| MRAP armor development for Iraq |
1 |
canonical |
| Protective Armor Systems (PAS) bullet-resistant glass |
1 |
canonical |
| Corningware three-layer glass-ceramic |
1 |
canonical |
| Professor Uhlmann's chemically tempered glass demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| Obsidian as natural glass |
1 |
canonical |
| Jenna Germany historical window |
1 |
canonical |
| 60 Wall Street (JP Morgan building) air conditioning riser pipe failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 1988 nor'easter structural collapses (New Jersey/Pennsylvania) |
1 |
canonical |
| Refinery A106 pipe failure and consultant study |
1 |
canonical |
| Massachusetts lemon-law case against General Motors |
1 |
canonical |
| Faberware Millennium cookware hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Watertown Arsenal titanium hinge part (post-WWII) |
1 |
canonical |
| Copper-niobium alloy CONFORM die failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Schuh ultra-fine-grain nickel-tungsten alloy commercialization |
1 |
canonical |
| Coble doctoral thesis at General Electric |
1 |
canonical |
| David Holt MIT tenure denial and Episcopalian ministry |
1 |
canonical |
| Offshore Gulf of Mexico near-miss incidents post-2000 |
1 |
canonical |
| New Alvin submersible cost overrun |
1 |
canonical |
| Connecticut hockey rink concrete failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 1922 additive manufacturing weld-buildup on cast iron |
1 |
canonical |
| *not directly named in this lecture; Tom alludes to steel-roll resurfacing rather than P&W laser* |
1 |
canonical |
| Sachs and Cima 3D printing invention (MIT, ~1990) |
1 |
canonical |
| Selective laser sintering invention (Texas, ~1985) |
1 |
canonical |
| Digital Alloys metal AM startup (Burlington, MA) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tiffany Rhode Island Super Bowl ring 3D-printed mold manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Roman concrete research (Admir Masic, MIT civil) |
1 |
canonical |
| Büyüköztürk Kuwait $25M concrete research program |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT undergraduate lab chromic acid disposal practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Erin Brockovich hexavalent chromium case |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Seawolf submarine hull cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| John Hansman wave-GPS race car fishtail monitoring |
1 |
canonical |
| Tar Sands Pipeline Failure (Canada) |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy Destroyer brass fitting failure (Second Gulf War) |
1 |
canonical |
| Stainless steel weld ferrite-content magnetic gauge |
1 |
canonical |
| Seven SI fundamental quantities and accuracy |
1 |
canonical |
| Cesium atomic clock: 10 GHz, one part in 10^10 |
1 |
canonical |
| Speed of light defines the meter (1/299,792,458) |
1 |
canonical |
| Platinum-iridium kilogram losing 60 µg/century |
1 |
canonical |
| LIGO precision targets: 10^-18 cm, one part in 10^22, 1 cm over 4 km |
1 |
canonical |
| 6% of chemical refinery pipes mislabeled (PMI) |
1 |
canonical |
| 80% of Philadelphia Supply Depot brass stock wrong alloy |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boston and New York cast-iron water main failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Florida high-rise copper-plated stainless steel water piping failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Delrin (polyformaldehyde) toilet valve failures and exploding toilets` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Polybutylene pipe and fitting failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Historical Boston water-gas street lighting infrastructure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Army ammunition dump lightning strike` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Arthroscopic knee surgery tool design and materials selection` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Silk screws for pediatric jaw fractures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Food and Drug Act polymer restrictions (medical devices)` |
1 |
canonical |
| Sterling silver lightweight dinnerware alloy |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet Titanium Aircraft Program (Docket 3) / Soviet Alpha-class submarine |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Navy titanium creep-fatigue research (1982 Soviet discovery) |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Navy all-stainless steel submarine program (AL-6X alloy) |
1 |
canonical |
| Chrome-molybdenum tube cracking at Boston Navy Yard |
1 |
canonical |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic transverse strength test (stainless/nickel alloy) |
1 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Tennessee 1980s strike and worker conditions |
1 |
canonical |
| Reynolds Aluminum origin in Reynolds Tobacco cigarette foil |
1 |
canonical |
| Military low-level radar platform molybdenum-copper composite |
1 |
canonical |
| San Diego wildfires and utility transmission line lawsuits |
1 |
canonical |
| Welded titanium stent tip failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Powdered beryllium discovery in MIT laboratory |
1 |
canonical |
| Bulk metallic glass golf clubs (referenced obliquely) |
1 |
canonical |
| Mid-Atlantic Ridge manganese sea nodule mining (Kennecott, 1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Concorde supersonic transport |
1 |
canonical |
| X-33 space plane liquid hydrogen tank |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet titanium submarine (Alpha-class) |
1 |
canonical |
| HMS Sheffield fire (Falklands) |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy aluminum-to-steel superstructure transition |
1 |
canonical |
| White Oak particle beam weapon program |
1 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle main tank friction-stir welding |
1 |
canonical |
| SS Schenectady T2 tanker fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| SS Manhattan brittle fracture at sea |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Sea Wolf submarine hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel lamellar tearing problem (1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Philippine gold-mining crushing machine failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Mini-mills and steel recycling |
1 |
canonical |
| Chrysler lightweight aluminum vehicle design |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft landing gear as primary design constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| Refrigerator plastic shelf failure / KitchenAid redesign |
1 |
canonical |
| Roman concrete durability |
1 |
canonical |
| Flint Michigan and Trail BC lead poisoning |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Cambridge campus founding (Back Bay filled land, 77 Mass Ave) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-tin solder ban (1978) and Boston fire-watch regulation |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston cast iron water main failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747-400 titanium catalytic converter welding (Englehard) |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston historical wooden gas pipes (gun-drilled logs) |
1 |
canonical |
| `NASA cold welding research initiative` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Mercury/Apollo program graphite lubricant failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Incandescent light bulb development (Edison/Langmuir)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `HMS Sheffield` |
1 |
canonical |
| `MBTA Thermite Rail Welding at Rosendale` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boeing Friction-Stir Welding Machine Investment` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Navy Ship Aluminum-Steel Transition Joints - Galvanic Corrosion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Power Plant Heat Exchanger Tube Sheet Joining` |
1 |
canonical |
| Early Soviet vs. American human spaceflight risk philosophy |
1 |
canonical |
| Hot dog cooker corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Desalination pump bearing failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Woods Hole house spray foam fire |
1 |
canonical |
| Alberta refinery pipe hydrostatic test failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Stainless steel grade pricing |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel productivity / pricing framework |
1 |
canonical |
| Ashby plots |
1 |
canonical |
| Diamond-graphite bonding contrast |
1 |
canonical |
| Lennard-Jones potential |
1 |
canonical |
| Heisenberg uncertainty in measurement |
1 |
canonical |
| `Diamond-coated asphalt tool development` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Paper slitter knife company evaluation` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Norton asphalt reclamation carbide-tip braze joint` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Automotive spot-weld electrode wear improvement (1980–1990)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Kentucky school fire forensic case` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Technetium lab data credibility case` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Kennecott Bingham Canyon copper mine operations` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Mesabi Range iron ore depletion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `US steel industry productivity transformation (1980-1990)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Basic oxygen furnace introduction in Austria` |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's steel company experience (Bethlehem Steel) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Continuous casting and steel industry capacity collapse` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Leech and Garner consulting retainer` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Leech and Garner gold mill consulting` |
1 |
canonical |
| `South African gold mine salt shaker smuggling` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Attleboro brass-rat jewelry company ring theft via river` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Attleboro jewelry plant toilet smuggling` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Leech and Garner floor drain gold recovery` |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT brass rat manufacturing reference |
1 |
canonical |
| Plasma torch discovery by Bob Gage |
1 |
canonical |
| Cadmium oxide electrical switch ban and house fires |
1 |
canonical |
| National Lightning Detection Network |
1 |
canonical |
| Rosenthal traveling-heat-source equation |
1 |
canonical |
| Nils Christensen and the dimensionless Rosenthal solution |
1 |
canonical |
| Nunsen Chai distributed heat source PDP-11 computation |
1 |
canonical |
| Vivek Dave subsurface heat distribution DARPA work |
1 |
canonical |
| Spot welding excessive current test |
1 |
canonical |
| Arc blow magnetization in shipyard welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Arthur Amos Noyes MIT to Caltech transition |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Leeb fluorescent light loudspeaker patent |
1 |
canonical |
| Central Artery tunnel project (Boston) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ragnar and Else Holm electric contacts and arc ignition theory |
1 |
canonical |
| 1984-1986 composite armor development cycle |
1 |
canonical |
| Four-inch and eight-inch IED escalation in Iraq |
1 |
canonical |
| Watertown Arsenal Civil War shot tower |
1 |
canonical |
| Williams Tower elevator marble finishes |
1 |
canonical |
| Corian countertop thermal cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Dow Chemical magnesium price cartel (1946–1975) |
1 |
canonical |
| 1880s Hall-Héroult process commercialization |
1 |
canonical |
| Farberware cooking pot thermal warping |
1 |
canonical |
| Rocky Flats activated diffusion bonding of maraging steel |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-tin solder obsolescence and lead-free transition |
1 |
canonical |
| VAX 9000 bonding failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Digital Equipment Corporation bankruptcy |
1 |
canonical |
| `LNG tanker steel development for cryogenic service` |
1 |
canonical |
| `LNG tanker shipyard plate selection and testing circumvention` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Quincy Shipyard liquid natural gas tanker construction (mid-1970s)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Prudhoe Bay offshore ice islands` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ice fishers dynamite accident` |
1 |
canonical |
| `LNG carrier tail shaft fracture` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Arizona pipeline stacker bracket failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Alaskan Pipeline construction` |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Nautilus hull material context |
1 |
canonical |
| Northridge earthquake (see above) |
1 |
canonical |
| Duplex stainless steel centrifuge brittle failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Stainless steel box cracking in transit to Japan |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric nuclear reactor safe-end cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese HSLA shipbuilding steel development |
1 |
canonical |
| Idaho National Engineering Lab nuclear reactor component preheat failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat HY80 weld forensics |
1 |
canonical |
| *no cluster — historical origin story* |
1 |
canonical |
| Pennzoil Oil City tank explosion and facility |
1 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh air pollution and steel mills |
1 |
canonical |
| TATA Steel J.J. Irani India iron ore externality (World Economic Forum at MIT, early 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet oil pipelines in Siberia |
1 |
canonical |
| Rhodesian chrome embargo |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors carpet adhesive failure (waterjet contamination) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Venezuelan oil boiler failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Tar sands vanadium pentoxide furnace problem` |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup HY-80 keel failure (HY130, 4340 substitution) |
1 |
canonical |
| Structural welding code preheat zones (zones 1/2/3) |
1 |
canonical |
| Carbon equivalent formula |
1 |
canonical |
| Copper checks from continuous caster startup |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel mill construction cost analysis (disruptive technology case study) |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing door product center cost accounting failure |
1 |
canonical |
| CMSX4/CMSX5 rhenium alloy pigtails in MIT lab |
1 |
canonical |
| Bell 407 ground school auto-rotation training |
1 |
canonical |
| Helicopter engine loss lawsuits |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup 4340 yacht welding (foreshadowed) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Eastern Pennsylvania bicycle handlebar failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Private Mach 2.5 aircraft crash and wing flutter failure` *(also matches: `Parag Green Falcon crash (first aircraft)` — see note)* |
1 |
canonical |
| `Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Steel blade demonstration in teaching forge` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cast-iron water main embrittlement and cracking` *(also relevant: `Boston and New York cast-iron water main failures`)* |
1 |
canonical |
| Johns Hopkins APL sonar tow cable pad-eye failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Church oven gas leak fire |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT women faculty equity study (Hopkins/Birgeneau, late 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lord Kelvin on powered flight (impossibility prediction) |
1 |
canonical |
| David Ragone and the Ragone plot |
1 |
canonical |
| Daniel Kahneman, *Thinking, Fast and Slow* (2011) |
1 |
canonical |
| S. Morris Engel, *The Language Trap / With Good Reason* |
1 |
canonical |
| Ed Schein, *Career Anchors* |
1 |
canonical |
| NFPA *Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations* (2014 edition) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rafael Reif's MIT *Spectrum* introduction |
1 |
canonical |
| `SSN-21 Sea Wolf hull cracking problem` / `Seawolf submarine hydrogen cracking` / `USS Sea Wolf submarine hull cracking` — three canonical entries appear to overlap; reconciliation needed. |
1 |
canonical |
| `Persian Gulf destroyer 3000 psi air system failure` (closely related: `US Navy Destroyer brass fitting failure (Second Gulf War)`, `USS cruiser brass airline failure (Second Gulf War)`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Dan Rather CBS building collapse` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boeing 747-400 catalytic converter titanium welding failure` (related: `Boeing 747-400 Titanium Air Tubing and Catalytic Converter`) |
1 |
canonical |
| Upstate New York brewery (1975 consulting job) |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force probability of detection inspection studies (1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cruise missile graphite engine` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Harvard Stadium reinforced concrete (1910)` |
1 |
canonical |
| Department of Energy 9% nickel steel qualification effort |
1 |
canonical |
| Arizona pipeline stacker bracket failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Massachusetts Supreme Court ICC bumper jack failure case |
1 |
canonical |
| Portsmouth submarine fire investigation |
1 |
canonical |
| High-temperature superconductor critical current density problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Niobium-3.5tin superconductor with zirconium oxide pinning precipitates |
1 |
canonical |
| DC transmission line in Manhattan |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy SQUID magnetic anomaly detection program |
1 |
canonical |
| Kim Clark Harvard Business School career arc |
1 |
canonical |
| Morris Chang / Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Aberdeen Proving Ground RDX soil contamination |
1 |
canonical |
| Newport News Shipyard carbide shack incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Thomas Wilson calcium carbide discovery |
1 |
canonical |
| Acetylene cylinder explosion hazard (early acetylene storage) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT undergraduate mercury fulminate fly-catcher |
1 |
canonical |
| Plumber MAPP gas torch facial injury incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Southern California MAP cylinder misuse federal lawsuit |
1 |
canonical |
| Mount Shasta MAP and acetylene burn testing study |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy nuclear reactor disposal practices |
1 |
canonical |
| Liquid copper jet cutting research |
1 |
canonical |
| Red Adair oil well blowout firefighting |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup 4340 welding procedure development |
1 |
canonical |
| Sub-Zero refrigerator hinge failure |
1 |
canonical |
| `Duplex stainless steel centrifuge brittle failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| 316 stainless steel heat exchanger tube pitting failure (Fenway Frank application) |
1 |
canonical |
| `New England Aquarium exterior panel corrosion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `New York City building crack near George Washington Bridge` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Argon oxygen decarbonization (AOD) process development` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Infinium magnesium extraction process development` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Japanese steel soda cans` |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel vs. aluminum auto markets US vs. Europe |
1 |
canonical |
| Hadfield's manganese steel (prison bars application) |
1 |
canonical |
| AT&T mechanical switch reliability crisis and transistor development |
1 |
canonical |
| LIGO gravitational wave detector (as basic-science counterexample) |
1 |
canonical |
| Hart Cell propeller failure |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT custodians' Christmas breakfast |
1 |
canonical |
| Hugh Nibley "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift" (framing text) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pacific Gas and Electric pumped-storage hydroelectric project |
1 |
canonical |
| Early steamboat boiler explosions (Ohio River) |
1 |
canonical |
| Alberta transmission tower steel contract dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| Johnson & Johnson medical device manufacturing defect |
1 |
canonical |
| Private Mach 2.5 aircraft crash and wing flutter failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 1849-1850 Royal Commission bridge safety factor study |
1 |
canonical |
| Cincinnati Red Stadium I-beam collapse |
1 |
canonical |
| Three-tank RPG penetration test (1985) |
1 |
canonical |
| 1991 Gulf War M1 Abrams vs T-72 tank engagement |
1 |
canonical |
| Western Massachusetts laser cutting machine factory fire |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar LNG welding sunburn incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Civil War cannonball drop towers |
1 |
canonical |
| SSN-21 Sea Wolf submarine hull cracking problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Canadian Transportation Board filler metal composition criticism |
1 |
canonical |
| Independent consultant patent liability and indemnification |
1 |
canonical |
| General Aviation Revitalization Act (1992) — statute, not a case |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft piston engine crankcase 30-year repair defect pattern |
1 |
canonical |
| FAA aircraft parts certification case |
1 |
canonical |
| `post-1965 greenfield steel mills` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boeing 747 C-5A competition` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Copper-bearing carbon steel railroad application` |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup yacht center board (Jerry Milgram consulting) |
1 |
canonical |
| `HSLA 65 carrier weight-reduction study` |
1 |
canonical |
| `US Navy Japan steel mill visit and HSLA technology transfer` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Single-crystal turbine blades (GE/Pratt & Whitney)` |
1 |
canonical |
| Polycrystalline silicon solar cell grain boundary efficiency |
1 |
canonical |
| `Charles Street MBTA station welding specifications case` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Seawolf submarine hydrogen cracking` / `SSN-21 Sea Wolf hull cracking problem` / `USS Seawolf HY-100 hydrogen cracking` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aloha Airlines Flight 243` |
1 |
canonical |
| `de Havilland Comet` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cape Air Cessna fleet consulting` |
1 |
canonical |
| Professor Reggie Pelloux MIT fatigue and fracture mentorship |
1 |
canonical |
| Howard Hughes pressurized aircraft development |
1 |
canonical |
| National Academy of Sciences 2002-2003 Defense Department materials research committee |
1 |
canonical |
| Westbrook 1962 General Electric structural materials price-vs-volume plot |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric synthetic diamond development (Tracy Hall) |
1 |
canonical |
| Peter Bridenbaugh Alcoa aluminum vehicle economics communication (October 2001) |
1 |
canonical |
| HSLA 65 carrier weight-reduction study |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet scandium aluminum alloys / aluminum baseball bats |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar 80-year-old home renovation (Spring 2016) |
1 |
canonical |
| Wright Brothers aircraft engine |
1 |
canonical |
| Werner Ladder Company extrusion temper case |
1 |
canonical |
| Upstate New York brewery (1975) |
1 |
canonical |
| A Civil Action (Woburn chemical spill) |
1 |
canonical |
| Molten Metal Technology tenure case |
1 |
canonical |
| Doc Edgerton stroboscope and EG&G founding |
1 |
canonical |
| Al Gore MIT commencement buzzword bingo hack |
1 |
canonical |
| Los Angeles class submarine life extension hull evaluation |
1 |
canonical |
| Three interacting circles (metallurgy / mechanical / corrosion) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nickel pricing (~$6.50/lb) |
1 |
canonical |
| Welding professor lineage at MIT (Masubuchi) |
1 |
canonical |
| GE GTD-111 superalloy heat-treatment patent |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil pipeline corrosion project cancellation—offset regulations |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing-Airbus aircraft offset agreements (Africa, South America, Japan) |
1 |
canonical |
| Jamestown and Saugus — wood-fueled industries relocated from Britain |
1 |
canonical |
| Upstate New York brewery (Tom's first consulting job) |
1 |
canonical |
| President Kennedy and US Steel price rollback |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's 1974 employment in the steel industry |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet aluminum dumping (Siberian hydroelectric / canned electricity) |
1 |
canonical |
| Technetium-99 cardiac imaging (Tom's exam) |
1 |
canonical |
| Burt Westwood 1960 GE structural-materials cost-volume plot |
1 |
canonical |
| Sumitomo scandium oxide production |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum baseball bat with scandium |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's daughter — metal allergy |
1 |
canonical |
| Attleboro gold capital (Leach & Garner) |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Schenectady (T2 tanker fracture) |
1 |
canonical |
| Sea Wolf submarine hydrogen cracking / inspection case |
1 |
canonical |
| George Washington Bridge approach building crack (NYC) |
1 |
canonical |
| BLISK (bladed disc) development |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston warehouse fire protection system corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric boiling water reactor stress corrosion cracking (304 stainless safe ends) |
1 |
canonical |
| Arizona warehouse roof corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Arizona aircraft boneyard (Davis-Monthan AFB) mothballing practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy reactor shutdown hydrazine oxygen scavenging |
1 |
canonical |
| HIP vessel explosion (16-ton fragment ejection) |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy internally cooled recuperator (ICR) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bell Labs zone melting semiconductor purification (1950s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Sea Wolf welding wire high-side chemistry / hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Single-crystal turbine blade growth in gradient furnaces |
1 |
canonical |
| US Steel / Bethlehem Steel generator rotor forging facility |
1 |
canonical |
| Cold-heading insert for particle-board furniture |
1 |
canonical |
| Isothermal forging — Pratt & Whitney |
1 |
canonical |
| Backofen's rediscovery of superplasticity / Taunton candy-dish die |
1 |
canonical |
| Post-office summer job and Naval Air rework facility (Norfolk) |
1 |
canonical |
| Davenport Iowa Alcoa plate gauge variation / air knife |
1 |
canonical |
| LIGO gravitational wave detector corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Liberty ships and SS Schenectady / SS Manhattan brittle fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| Pellini explosion bulge test / Naval Research Lab brittle fracture work |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT brittle fracture research (Cohen, Averbach) |
1 |
canonical |
| Friction stir welded jet aircraft proposal |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel generator rotor forging — welding feasibility study |
1 |
canonical |
| Battleship gun barrel manufacturing facilities |
1 |
canonical |
| Intel Pentium chip wire bonding |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Lincoln Lab 300 GHz radar dish structure (Millstone) |
1 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle Challenger O-ring |
1 |
canonical |
| Pelloux quote — "something won't fail unless it's been welded |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear submarine hull steel (HY-80) |
1 |
canonical |
| Galileo's beam-bending sketch |
1 |
canonical |
| Bessemer process and Carnegie steel wealth |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel Charpy testing (Eagar as young engineer) |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar plexiglass brittle-fracture demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| Wuensch MIT crystallography teaching (Eagar as student) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Media Lab lime-green tile hack |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT "No Knife" hack |
1 |
canonical |
| Microsurgery instrument material selection consulting case |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar torn cartilage and Vietnam draft exemption |
1 |
canonical |
| Henry Petroski, *To Engineer is Human* |
1 |
canonical |
| Robert Sprague's law |
1 |
canonical |
| Jim Williams' corollary |
1 |
canonical |
| 2025 aluminum propeller-blade alloy (toughness vs. 2024) |
1 |
canonical |
| Electron beam deposition on naval propellers |
1 |
canonical |
| Wyoming gas plant heat exchanger explosion and failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Yoel Fink perfect mirror / Bragg fiber development |
1 |
canonical |
| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries spherical stainless steel reactor vessel welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Laser-welded aluminum window frames (circa 1980) |
1 |
canonical |
| Kodak film plant exclusion from Japan (late 1970s–1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Kodak manufacturing inefficiency in monopoly era (mid-1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel Industry Crisis and Japanese Competition |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup HY-80 keel failure |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors and Ford minivan spot-weld fatigue failures |
1 |
canonical |
| `Egyptian-Israeli Tank War` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Automobile spot welding quality` |
1 |
canonical |
| Materials engineering share of practicing engineers |
1 |
canonical |
| High-speed helicopter drive shaft hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| IMT North Andover hot isostatic press explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| International Nickel A710 / HSLA-80 predecessor development |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas pipeline brittle fracture propagation |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force 100,000-ton forging press (unbuilt) |
1 |
canonical |
| German plastic injection molding machine shaft forging lap |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel Industry Overcapacity Crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford Motor Company executive dining room hamburger story |
1 |
canonical |
| Gold tubing manufacturer dies redesign (Boston area) |
1 |
canonical |
| Kodak film digital photography failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Leaded brass plumbing fittings phase-out |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-tin solder ban and plumbing failures (1978) |
1 |
canonical |
| Las Vegas brass fitting corrosion litigation |
1 |
canonical |
| Hammurabi code (oldest written rules) |
1 |
canonical |
| Hippocratic Oath as professional code |
1 |
canonical |
| Iowa barn lightning fires and cattle losses |
1 |
canonical |
| Historical ammunition dump lightning strike |
1 |
canonical |
| Middletown Connecticut gas pipeline explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Edison's carbonized horsehair light bulb filament |
1 |
canonical |
| Incandescent light bulb development (Edison/Langmuir) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT School of Engineering strategy retreat (circa 1990) |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM summer materials science course (late 1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force turbine blade repair |
1 |
canonical |
| Coast Guard 103-foot cutter cracking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum beverage can industry tonnage |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy magnesium-carbon diving composite (Panama City) |
1 |
canonical |
| DOE magnesium automotive lightweighting program |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 777 brake certification testing |
1 |
canonical |
| Commercial aircraft lease-by-the-hour maintenance economics |
1 |
canonical |
| Deer Island wastewater treatment aluminum piping |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum foil cooking water-cooling demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy ship recuperator heat exchanger failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Hot isostatic pressing vessel explosion (Grafton, MA) |
1 |
canonical |
| Inconel 718 invention (Huntington Alloys, 1950s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Hot isostatic pressing technology (general) |
1 |
canonical |
| Engine blade rejuvenation via hot isostatic pressing (HIP) |
1 |
canonical |
| LNG tanker steel specification practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Coast Guard / Navy material-test best-region circumvention pattern |
1 |
canonical |
| Lester Thurow MIT Sloan Senior Executives program (1988) |
1 |
canonical |
| California gas tank emissions regulations and lead-coated steel manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Resistance spot welds per automobile (3,000 for 2,000 good) |
1 |
canonical |
| California as 18% of US economy / 18th largest country |
1 |
canonical |
| Subsea pipeline tool fragment defect |
1 |
canonical |
| Shipyard fillet weld measurement dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| Georgia missile-handling building Faraday cage |
1 |
canonical |
| NASA X-33 space plane program |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford ISO 9000 first-tier supplier mandate |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT undergraduate germanium thermometer superconductivity calibration |
1 |
canonical |
| 1989–2009 commercial aircraft accidents attributed to NDT failures |
1 |
canonical |
| `Faberware Millennium cookware hydrogen cracking` (provisional match; see register flag — may overlap with `Millennium cookware hydrogen cracking and Teflon coating` and/or `High-strength steel cookware hydrogen cracking`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `HY-80 and HY-100 steel development` (for the HY-steel reference); `Japanese HSLA shipbuilding steel development` (for the 1980s HSLA pivot Tom cites as the better path) |
1 |
canonical |
| `WWI Army truck and vehicle repair` |
1 |
canonical |
| `WWI Navy ship reconditioning` |
1 |
canonical |
| `High-pressure refinery vessels with shielded arc welding` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Gasoline yield improvement via welded refinery towers` |
1 |
canonical |
| *not a case — reference material* |
1 |
canonical |
| Locomotive frame fabrication cost reduction |
1 |
canonical |
| Welded aircraft engine mount tubes |
1 |
canonical |
| Shasta Dam welded penstock construction |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney TLP bonding patent (1972) and Owczarski paper (1974) |
1 |
canonical |
| King Tut dagger gold-bead joining |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy submarine transformer solder joint failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Chrysler sports car fuel injector failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Tantalum-vanadium diffusion bonding brittle intermetallic |
1 |
canonical |
| Gallium arsenide TLP diffusion soldering (Raytheon student, early 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese 10,000-ton diffusion bonding press for clad metal |
1 |
canonical |
| F-22 and F-35 unit cost reference ($200M) |
1 |
canonical |
| Plastic soda bottle pressure dependence |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas well steel weld brittle fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| Automotive sheet metal stretcher strain defects |
1 |
canonical |
| TRIP steels for automotive deep drawing |
1 |
canonical |
| Corning technology theft incidents |
1 |
canonical |
| Walker spy case (military base security tightening) |
1 |
canonical |
| Professor Owen's chemically tempered glass demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| *1980s aluminum beverage can design optimization using supercomputers* (matched from canon) |
1 |
canonical |
| *Neodymium-iron-boron magnet thermal failure in electric vehicles* (matched from canon) |
1 |
canonical |
| *Electrically conductive polymers (polyacetylene) misconception* (matched from canon); also relates to *Polyacetylene conductive polymers* and *Conductive polymers hype cycle* |
1 |
canonical |
| *3D metal sintering venture (concept laser acquisition)* (matched from canon); also relates to *Desktop Metal eyeglass hinges* |
1 |
canonical |
| *World Trade Center collapse* (matched from canon) |
1 |
canonical |
| likely matches an existing cluster — candidates from the canon include *SSN-21 Sea Wolf hull cracking problem*, *Seawolf submarine hydrogen cracking*, *USS Sea Wolf submarine hull cracking*, or *US Navy Sea Wolf submarine acoustic emission study*. Tom mentions only that he worked on Seawolf for the chief engineer of the Navy and that the rate-setting was unusually permissive; the specific technical context is not given in this fragment. |
1 |
canonical |
| Fore River Bridge (Quincy) |
1 |
canonical |
| WWII armor plate stress-relief welding |
1 |
canonical |
| GE turbine heavy-section preheat foundation welds |
1 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat administration building flux-core welding (consulting visit) |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston Navy Yard chrome-moly to stainless transition joint |
1 |
canonical |
| USS cruiser brass airline failure (Second Gulf War) |
1 |
canonical |
| Leach and Garner gold mill consulting |
1 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh cold heading plant |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors steering gear cold/warm heading |
1 |
canonical |
| 1922 welding residual stress and cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Lucalox (General Electric aluminum oxide tubes) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel structural rolling |
1 |
canonical |
| Fastenal Rockford Illinois plant tour |
1 |
canonical |
| Digital Alloys Joule printing process |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Materials Department tenure pollution case (Dave Paul, late 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Peggy Cebe tenure case / $850,000 settlement |
1 |
canonical |
| Bob Mehrabian solidification-vs-welding tenure case (1974) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's own near-non-tenure (1977 letter) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel research culture (Tom's early career) |
1 |
canonical |
| Unnamed upstate New York brewery (1975 consulting job) |
1 |
canonical |
| Mercedes-Benz vs. Tesla competitive strategy failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston Gas Tank Corita Kent mural (Ho Chi Minh urban legend) |
1 |
canonical |
| Glass Flowers at Harvard |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford F-150 (aluminum body program) |
1 |
canonical |
| Billion-ton-per-year materials club |
1 |
canonical |
| 150 hours of recorded lectures |
1 |
canonical |
| Egyptian armor plate tank weld cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Industrial Liaison Program consulting practice (1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford F-150 plant labor constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney turbine blade manufacturing constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford Taurus bumper paint line constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors Chevy Cavalier just-in-time assembly plant |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT $220M powder metallurgy 3D printing startup (circa 2017) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT 3D inkjet printing origin (Sachs/Cima, early 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rolls-Royce/Detroit Diesel Allison turbine disc failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Mad Hatter company morale and quality crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT student alcohol death |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT custodial Christmas breakfast (Eagar department head) |
1 |
canonical |
| Electroplated bicycle tube fatality |
1 |
canonical |
| Nautilus submarine hydrogen cracking during construction |
1 |
canonical |
| Seawolf submarine welding hydrogen embrittlement failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Groton Connecticut submarine welding hydrogen embrittlement failures |
1 |
canonical |
| ESAB founding from muddy-electrode discovery (Gothenburg ~1910) |
1 |
canonical |
| Henry Bessemer converter development (1856) |
1 |
canonical |
| Andrew Carnegie and US Steel founding |
1 |
canonical |
| US Steel basic open hearth (early 1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bao Steel government-funded growth |
1 |
canonical |
| 1991 future-of-metals Welding Journal article |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT basement stainless steel carbon control technology |
1 |
canonical |
| Cyril Smith humanities course on materials history |
1 |
canonical |
| Medieval sword tempering practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar manganese deposition expert witness testimony |
1 |
canonical |
| Welding industry manganese litigation |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors Linden New Jersey locating pin failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Toyota supplier quality crisis (1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Upton Sinclair meatpacking industry exposure and Food and Drug Act |
1 |
canonical |
| Government helicopter design approval and manufacturer liability protection |
1 |
canonical |
| Frederick Fish patent attorney (Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nutter McLennan and Fish receptionist Brandeis anecdote |
1 |
canonical |
| Norton Rose Fulbright (formerly Norton Rose Jaworski) Watergate prosecutor anecdote |
1 |
canonical |
| Thixotropic/semi-solid casting patent suppression at MIT |
1 |
canonical |
| Modern single-crystal turbine blade casting (core shift defect) |
1 |
canonical |
| US Army M16 firing pin semi-solid steel injection molding program |
1 |
canonical |
| Vancouver World's Fair gold coin |
1 |
canonical |
| Reading Pennsylvania copper plant deoxidation process |
1 |
canonical |
| Continuous casting of steel strip (50-year unsolved challenge) |
1 |
canonical |
| Amtrak New Haven to Boston trolley wire / Amtrak catenary wire procurement fraud case |
1 |
canonical |
| Ingot-cast rim steel surface purity |
1 |
canonical |
| Generator rotor housing sand casting |
1 |
canonical |
| `1985 Ford Aerostar rear axle fatigue failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cement truck case` (one of several cement-truck cases in the corpus; this one is the water-tank-saddle stiffness-change fatigue case) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Caterpillar earthmoving machinery fatigue study` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Guthrie weld toe fatigue research` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Coast Guard cutter bracket undermatching case` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Egyptian armor plate tank weld cracking` |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy PH stainless steel hydrofoil rudder/propeller |
1 |
canonical |
| `US Navy superaustenitic submarine material evaluation` |
1 |
canonical |
| `General Electric boiling water reactor stress corrosion cracking` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Rensselaer Polytechnic transverse strength test (stainless/nickel alloy)` — note this cluster name appears imprecise; the test is the Varestraint test |
1 |
canonical |
| Either `Farberware cooking pot thermal warping` or `Farberware stainless steel cookware pot cracking` (one of several Farberware entries) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Miami waterfront building material selection dispute` (likely match — frame is consistent) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Alcoa Tennessee 1980s strike and worker conditions` |
1 |
canonical |
| `General Motors Linden New Jersey locating pin failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Power plant strike at Boston Edison (Everett)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `IBM summer materials science course (late 1970s)` — partial match; this is a related but distinct IBM engagement |
1 |
canonical |
| Motorola LFM technology consultation |
1 |
canonical |
| Canadian aluminum-silicon carbide composite casting development |
1 |
canonical |
| University of Alaska asphalt research program |
1 |
canonical |
| Alaska highway asphalt degradation |
1 |
canonical |
| Fiberglass truck bed trial at coal mine |
1 |
canonical |
| Longfellow Bridge guardrail perforation |
1 |
canonical |
| New England highway bridge rebar corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel-toe boot heat treating tank stress corrosion cracking / hydrogen embrittlement |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Sea Wolf submarine hull cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear submarine welding hydrogen embrittlement cracks |
1 |
canonical |
| Bolt hydrogen embrittlement cracking dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| Joel Clark Ford composite truck bed coal mine trial |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Seawolf hydrogen cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Davenport Iowa aluminum plate mechanical stress relief |
1 |
canonical |
| Submarine first-deep-dive mechanical stress relief |
1 |
canonical |
| Bonal Technologies / vibratory stress relief |
1 |
canonical |
| JG Sylvester and Associates consulting apprenticeship |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel pay cut on return to MIT |
1 |
canonical |
| Attleboro gold company consulting contract |
1 |
canonical |
| Submarine scuttling off Newport News / Nags Head |
1 |
canonical |
| CANMET reactor neutron diffraction residual stress measurement |
1 |
canonical |
| Petrobras oil rig failure (Brazil) |
1 |
canonical |
| Costa Concordia grounding (2012) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bath Iron Works welding-over-paint trials |
1 |
canonical |
| Mass General subway stop welding consultation |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Sea Cliff titanium submarine welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat torpedo-tube distortion control |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pratt & Whitney single-crystal turbine blade` |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric Appliance Park manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| `Wright Brothers aircraft engine` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Audi all-aluminum automobiles` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Andrew Mellon all-aluminum Pierce Arrow automobile` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ford Taurus aluminum body cost analysis` |
1 |
canonical |
| `NIST competitiveness vs. productivity misunderstanding` |
1 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Iceland hydroelectric aluminum smelter |
1 |
canonical |
| `Soviet aluminum dumping and Alcoa/Norsk Hydro market collapse` |
1 |
canonical |
| `MIT Food Nutrition Department closure` |
1 |
canonical |
| De Beers diamond market monopoly |
1 |
canonical |
| `Lakshmi Mittal steel mill acquisition strategy` |
1 |
canonical |
| Ned Thomas / Chris Schuh / "metallurgy is dead |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel Research talk and AISI Orlando conclave |
1 |
canonical |
| `1558 English law against tree-felling for charcoal` |
1 |
canonical |
| `British iron industry wood shortage crisis` |
1 |
canonical |
| James Watt and the thermodynamic origins of productivity |
1 |
canonical |
| `New Hampshire sapphire and silicon crystal growth company` |
1 |
canonical |
| iPhone 6 sapphire cover (delayed launch) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bell Labs optical fiber transmissivity chart |
1 |
canonical |
| `GTD-111 superalloy patent dispute` |
1 |
canonical |
| Nick Grant high-temperature alloys at MIT |
1 |
canonical |
| 1952 T2 tanker fracture off Cape Cod |
1 |
canonical |
| Quincy Shipyard liquid natural gas tanker construction (mid-1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rail steel derailments |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum 7075 stress-corrosion cracking in aircraft structures |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy heavy-section titanium submarine program |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel — Tom's early career |
1 |
canonical |
| Mexican airline hot corrosion engine failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Energy content of metals (Ashby data) |
1 |
canonical |
| Three native metals |
1 |
canonical |
| Helicopter bearing precision manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Simpson Governance and Hager firm preheat procedure violation |
1 |
canonical |
| Vietnam-era Naval jet engine crashes and rebuilds |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel welding engineer experience |
1 |
canonical |
| Tekken test development for Japanese railways |
1 |
canonical |
| Lost foam casting invention and commercialization |
1 |
canonical |
| Turbine blade casting development at Pratt & Whitney |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric CF6-6 engine fan rotor failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Electric arc furnace water-cooled pipe rupture and molten steel explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Lincoln Lab Quadulan radar dome bogie replacement |
1 |
canonical |
| Bulk metallic glass commercialization effort |
1 |
canonical |
| Army wonder armor scaling failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force titanium powder prototype facility (Wyman Gordon) |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy 25 kilowatt laser welder at Naval Research Laboratory |
1 |
canonical |
| Phelps Dodge / Boston-New Hampshire trolley wire procurement (from chunk 2) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear Metals (Concord MA) rotating electrode process and depleted uranium extrusion |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Foundry aluminum chlorine cleaning operations |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT transite sawing exposure |
1 |
canonical |
| Friction stir welding development for aluminum aircraft structures |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy spray and laser cladding repair program |
1 |
canonical |
| Helicopter rotor containment specification |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT foamed aluminum research (Gibson) |
1 |
canonical |
| High-pressure-melt fine powder atomization startup (Boston-area, unnamed) |
1 |
canonical |
| Metal powder barge fires (related) |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force 50-megawatt laser weapon classified power inference |
1 |
canonical |
| MP35N cold-worked cobalt-nickel alloy section-size limitation |
1 |
canonical |
| Velcro invention (serendipitous discovery) |
1 |
canonical |
| Morgrip propeller bolt single-use replacement |
1 |
canonical |
| High-strength bolt reuse in aviation accidents |
1 |
canonical |
| Westbrook pounds-per-year vs. dollars-per-pound structural-materials correlation |
1 |
canonical |
| Atlantic-coast cement barging distribution model |
1 |
canonical |
| Kinik brazed-diamond CMP pad conditioner |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT engineering department founding chronology |
1 |
canonical |
| Bismuth-telluride thermoelectric remote-pipeline sensor power |
1 |
canonical |
| Langmuir GE vaporization studies and tungsten filament burnout |
1 |
canonical |
| Army gun barrel erosion and coating programs |
1 |
canonical |
| Lockheed Skunk Works X-33 spaceplane composite tank (rapid prototyping redesign) |
1 |
canonical |
| Velcro / cockle-bur biomimetic discovery |
1 |
canonical |
| Strategic Defense Initiative materials-fantasy critique |
1 |
canonical |
| Submerged arc welding of titanium flux economics |
1 |
canonical |
| B1 bomber program titanium surplus repurposing |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium heat exchanger corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| NIST F1 atomic clock as measurement standard |
1 |
canonical |
| Fire assay gold analysis (MIT historical curriculum) |
1 |
canonical |
| 3D metal printing propeller test for US Navy |
1 |
canonical |
| Manganese aluminum bronze electron-beam 3D printing trial |
1 |
canonical |
| US Air Force turbine vane repair program (DAABER) |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors 1980s automation and competitive decline |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas pipe corrosion and home explosions |
1 |
canonical |
| Cape Cod sailboat anodized aluminum corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Single transistor hermetic packaging with indium cold bonds |
1 |
canonical |
| Brewery filling line consulting project |
1 |
canonical |
| Welch's grape juice packaging versus beer |
1 |
canonical |
| Tylecote 1954 oxide-to-metal hardness data |
1 |
canonical |
| Stefan equation force-time product |
1 |
canonical |
| Bikerman joint-formation time table |
1 |
canonical |
| Skeist critical surface tension table |
1 |
canonical |
| Egon Orowan Finnish coastline viscosity estimate |
1 |
canonical |
| `Seawolf submarine hydrogen cracking` |
1 |
canonical |
| Three preheat regimes (50°F / 100–300°F / >300°F) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tempering threshold (≈300°F start of hardness drop-off) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pennsylvania cement truck fatality and regulatory failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cement truck brake corrosion and fatality` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Raytheon Aegis missile part aluminum bending incident` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Danvers Massachusetts chemical plant explosion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Nine Chrome One Molybdenum steel qualification (power generation)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Food and Drug Act polymer restrictions (medical devices)` *(or)* `Medical implant polymer certification freeze` |
1 |
canonical |
| Attleboro gold jewelry manufacturer (largest in world) inventory shortfall |
1 |
canonical |
| Platinum jewelry laser cutting adoption |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar wife's engagement ring (electron-beam-melted platinum-iridium) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tanyon laminated silver wedding band |
1 |
canonical |
| German superplasticity research (1938, lost in WWII) |
1 |
canonical |
| Honeywell aircraft brake leasing economics |
1 |
canonical |
| aircraft engine power-by-the-hour leasing model |
1 |
canonical |
| Corrugated stainless steel gas tubing lightning strike fires |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing composite wing lightning strike internship project |
1 |
canonical |
| Tungsten carbide and sintered diamond asphalt milling bit optimization |
1 |
canonical |
| Rongeur (orthopedic surgical pliers) consulting work |
1 |
canonical |
| Surgical scissors (medical liability premium) |
1 |
canonical |
| Sachs polycrystalline silicon ribbon solar cell venture |
1 |
canonical |
| Spruce Goose |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum baseball bat *(adjacent — this is wood-bat context for the bat material discussion)* |
1 |
canonical |
| Tar sands vanadium pentoxide furnace problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Cambridge water main floods from cast iron pipe failure |
1 |
canonical |
| LNG tanker steel development for cryogenic service |
1 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen innovator's dilemma research — steel mill cost data (from chunk 1) |
1 |
canonical |
| Post-1965 greenfield steel mills |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel "fully depreciated" anecdote (from chunk 2) |
1 |
canonical |
| Chaparral Steel; Gordon Forward mini mill competition strategy |
1 |
canonical |
| Great Leap Forward backyard furnaces in China |
1 |
canonical |
| Detroit blast furnace rupture (1925-era) |
1 |
canonical |
| Tractor-trailer king-pin cast-iron lockdown fracture |
1 |
canonical |
| Ray Stata and the Stata Center gift |
1 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen and the steel mill cost research |
1 |
canonical |
| Baosteel and Chinese steel industry dominance |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel industry excess capacity crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Reagan Star Wars and Japanese financing of US debt |
1 |
canonical |
| Honda Civic rust failure (1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| SUBSAFE program and Navy origins of TQM |
1 |
canonical |
| *The Machine That Changed the World* and lean manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Materials Processing Center vs. LMP turf war (1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program founding (1989) |
1 |
canonical |
| Jet engine company hydrogen bake-out timing failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Preheat lapse before Monday welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Mississippi pressure vessel explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas compressor station failure in Texas |
1 |
canonical |
| New Jersey prison elevator bearing failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Elevator cable brittle fracture investigation |
1 |
canonical |
| Classified aircraft hydrogen embrittlement case |
1 |
canonical |
| California texting and driving fatal collision |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel high-speed steel and rolled I-beam innovations (c. 1900) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Materials Department post-WWII fracture mechanics research (Cohen, Averbach) |
1 |
canonical |
| BP Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer failure |
1 |
canonical |
| NASA 1960s rocket motor case failures |
1 |
canonical |
| New Jersey asphalt plant gas pipeline explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Wyoming liquefied natural gas storage facility release |
1 |
canonical |
| Federal gas pipeline explosion investigation (Mississippi) |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup hydraulic hardware failure (Navtec) |
1 |
canonical |
| Plastics industry brittle failures and class-action lawsuits |
1 |
canonical |
| *not a distinct case — context-setting aside* |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747 C-5A competition |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum-silicon carbide composite welding project |
1 |
canonical |
| Qantas airline composite delamination |
1 |
canonical |
| *Corrugated stainless steel gas pipe lightning strike fires* (matches canonical cluster *Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing* and *Flexible gas piping lightning strike fires*) |
1 |
canonical |
| *Hyatt Regency walkway collapse* |
1 |
canonical |
| *Northridge earthquake* |
1 |
canonical |
| *Post-9/11 building egress code revisions* |
1 |
canonical |
| Personal atomic clock (chip-scale) |
1 |
canonical |
| NIST F1 (cesium fountain time standard) |
1 |
canonical |
| Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water |
1 |
canonical |
| Seven fundamental physical constants (NIST/UK/France paper) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel forging plant summer training (1975) |
1 |
canonical |
| Japan Steel Works 600-ton upset forging |
1 |
canonical |
| Al Backofen biographical anecdotes (Marblehead house sale, Christmas tree farm, antique trade) |
1 |
canonical |
| Amtrak Acela trolley wire — Phelps Dodge vs. Rome NY supplier |
1 |
canonical |
| Tony Thompson doctoral thesis on grain size and fatigue in copper |
1 |
canonical |
| Jim Melcher diffusion-as-electric-circuit anecdote |
1 |
canonical |
| Polymer extrusion mixing problem (blue/white resin) |
1 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle Columbia main engine injector post friction welding (Rocketdyne) |
1 |
canonical |
| F-14 fighter aircraft inertia welded components |
1 |
canonical |
| GE jet engine compressor ring inertia welding (Inco 718) |
1 |
canonical |
| Caterpillar Tractor inertia welding program (1966–present) |
1 |
canonical |
| Outboard motor propeller shaft inertia welding (stainless / carburized steel) |
1 |
canonical |
| Automobile drive shaft universal joint friction welding *(adjacent; not the same case)* — PROPOSED new: Automotive turbocharger rotor inertia welding (713C to SAE 4140) |
1 |
canonical |
| Proto Tool ratchet wrench inertia welding (sintered head to screw-machine handle) |
1 |
canonical |
| Schwinn bicycle fork stem inertia welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil and water well drill pipe inertia welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil well sucker rod inertia welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Truck trailer brake cam inertia welding (formerly one-piece forging) |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil pump gear three-piece inertia welded assembly (Model 180B) |
1 |
canonical |
| Automotive engine valve inertia welding (heat-resistant head to economy stem) |
1 |
canonical |
| Transmission cover three-spindle simultaneous inertia welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Trapped-washer three-piece inertia welded assembly (six-station indexing) |
1 |
canonical |
| Dana Corporation clevis-to-rod inertia welding (Model 180B) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Cement truck pressure vessel explosion (Pennsylvania)` (primary); related clusters: `Pennsylvania cement truck fatality and regulatory failure`, `Cement truck case`, `Initial cement truck tank explosion and worker leg amputation` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Connecticut cement truck steering failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| Value of a pound saved |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum vs. steel material cost ratio |
1 |
canonical |
| Hydrogen solubility drop on solidification (aluminum) |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum porosity–strength proportionality |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney military jet engine design defect lawsuit (1992) |
1 |
canonical |
| Stress corrosion cracking terminology insurance dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| US corrosion cost study and Congress funding |
1 |
canonical |
| Polybutylene pipe and fitting failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Consultant's daughter polybutylene condo replacement lawsuit (Raleigh, NC) |
1 |
canonical |
| Cambridge MA water chlorine content |
1 |
canonical |
| Charles Goodyear vulcanization and Mayan rubber crosslinking |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Navy titanium submarine welding research (Alvin prototype program) |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval shipyard radiography eye injury incident |
1 |
canonical |
| 2007 Chinese metals market disruption |
1 |
canonical |
| HY130 Seawolf submarine welds (hydrogen cracking) |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese Pcm cracking parameter development |
1 |
canonical |
| Pellini explosion bulge test |
1 |
canonical |
| Surface ship hole-plugging vs submarine hull breach |
1 |
canonical |
| Sandia nuclear weapons cost-per-fatality rationale |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel welding procedure notebook |
1 |
canonical |
| Caterpillar Peoria welding operation (5,000 welders) |
1 |
canonical |
| Welder recertification burden in oil and construction (early 1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| American Welding Society certification revenue growth (1990s–2010s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Triangle Engineering AWS welder testing facility |
1 |
canonical |
| Liberty ships and welded merchant vessel failures (WWII) |
1 |
canonical |
| Forging press weld repair (Pennsylvania, 17-inch thick steel) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nova Scotia sailboat trailer weld failure (Route 24) |
1 |
canonical |
| Quonset Point submarine hull cap fixturing and welding practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Submarine torpedo tube distortion control |
1 |
canonical |
| Carrier nuclear piping corrosion repair |
1 |
canonical |
| Shipyard thermal distortion during construction |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing aircraft rivet hole fit-up specification |
1 |
canonical |
| Russian submarine hull thickness intelligence |
1 |
canonical |
| John Chipman MIT steelmaking research (Manhattan Project era through 1973) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bessemer converter introduction (1856) |
1 |
canonical |
| Basic open hearth furnace (Carnegie 1880s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Basic oxygen furnace (postwar Austria) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pellini and Naval Research Laboratory brittle fracture work |
1 |
canonical |
| Morris Cohen MIT postwar brittle fracture research |
1 |
canonical |
| Medieval Islamic sword quenching practice |
1 |
canonical |
| Pittsburgh Reduction Company / Alcoa founding |
1 |
canonical |
| NSF 1989 superconductor-only funding directive |
1 |
canonical |
| Nigerian cement shipping crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| All-aluminum automobile body cost analysis (early 1990s) / Ford Taurus aluminum body cost analysis |
1 |
canonical |
| University of Oslo semester abroad student language accommodation |
1 |
canonical |
| Brewery consulting case (upstate New York) — not referenced in this lecture |
1 |
canonical |
| `Tacoma Narrows Bridge` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Brockton Massachusetts steam boiler explosion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Ohio River steamboat boiler explosion` |
1 |
canonical |
| `1849-1850 Royal Commission bridge safety factor study` |
1 |
canonical |
| `New Orleans Canal Levee Failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Deepwater Horizon / BP Macondo well blowout` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Offshore Gulf of Mexico near-miss incidents post-2000` |
1 |
canonical |
| `ALVIN submarine pressure hull cost overrun` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aberdeen Proving Ground kinetic energy penetrator armor defeat (1984-1985)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Nuclear reactor bolt failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Sports complex building collapse during erection` |
1 |
canonical |
| `50,000-ton Wyman-Gordon forging press structural crack` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aircraft crankshaft bolt tensioning` |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Lincoln Lab 300 GHz Radar Dish Structure |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel vs. aluminum global tonnage |
1 |
canonical |
| Critical flaw size in HY-100 vs. aluminum |
1 |
canonical |
| Allowable stress factors |
1 |
canonical |
| 2025 aluminum propeller alloy (mid-1920s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum Navy ship cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval diver thermal protection using magnesium alloy |
1 |
canonical |
| Kentucky school fire forensic case |
1 |
canonical |
| Polonium poisoning of Ukrainian president (Yushchenko reference) |
1 |
canonical |
| H.C. Starck tantalum production facility (Newton, Massachusetts) |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium anhydrous ammonia explosions |
1 |
canonical |
| Texas City acetic acid plant zirconium reactors |
1 |
canonical |
| British technology transfer to China in zirconium reactor development |
1 |
canonical |
| Leech and Garner gold mill consulting |
1 |
canonical |
| South African gold mine salt shaker smuggling |
1 |
canonical |
| 1990s sectoral corrosion cost breakdown |
1 |
canonical |
| Galvanic series voltage range |
1 |
canonical |
| Cathodic protection setpoint |
1 |
canonical |
| Pourbaix's elemental coverage |
1 |
canonical |
| Gold cohesion experiment (ultra-high vacuum, 1950s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford aluminum ultrasonic welding research |
1 |
canonical |
| Alcoa-Audi aluminum vehicle development partnership |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing aircraft door manufacturing and cost analysis |
1 |
canonical |
| Sandia ultrasonic aluminum welding research |
1 |
canonical |
| GE Lynn jet engine turbine disk friction welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Automobile drive shaft universal joint friction welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Mercury/Apollo program graphite lubricant failure |
1 |
canonical |
| `1980s aluminum beverage can design optimization using supercomputers` (also touches `Alcoa beverage can production line`, `Beer and soda can drawing operations`, `Coca-Cola can manufacturing`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Detroit automotive steering components cold forming` (matches existing canon) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pittsburgh cold heading plant` (matches existing canon; closely related to `Cold heading for furniture fasteners` and `Post-WWII cold heading machine phosphate-stearate surface treatment`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Detroit radiator tube stamping consulting case` (matches existing canon) |
1 |
canonical |
| Attleboro jewelry company gold operations |
1 |
canonical |
| `Molybdenum bar rolling failure (Philips Elmet)` (matches existing canon; also `Cleveland wire plant tungsten grain growth` family for tungsten/Mo work) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel research department (1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Black Hawk helicopter tail rotor washer failure` (matches existing canon; closely related to `Blackhawk helicopter stress corrosion cracking failure`, `Aluminum washer stress-corrosion cracking failure`, `Navy aluminum washers shelf storage failure`) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT freshman seminar on drivers of technology (Eagar/Hosler) |
1 |
canonical |
| LIGO measurement precision |
1 |
canonical |
| Sèvres kilogram and NIST mass-redefinition program |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear test fallout in St. George, Utah |
1 |
canonical |
| Cold welding and graphite lubricant failure in early space missions |
1 |
canonical |
| Charles Townes laser invention and patent dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Sketchpad and CAD/FEA evolution |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval Surface Weapon Center baseball bat testing |
1 |
canonical |
| Baseball bat forensic consulting case |
1 |
canonical |
| Pitcher eye injury from aluminum bat |
1 |
canonical |
| NASCAR magnesium components |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum 6061 weld cracking with improper filler wire selection |
1 |
canonical |
| Undergraduate 2024 aluminum welding lab |
1 |
canonical |
| 1980s refrigerator shelf failures |
1 |
canonical |
| KitchenAid refrigerator successful design |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston hot-work fire-watch regulation and building cost impact |
1 |
canonical |
| 1980s aluminum beverage can design optimization using supercomputers |
1 |
canonical |
| Pineapple juice composite can (steel/aluminum) |
1 |
canonical |
| Plastic gas can fire forensics case |
1 |
canonical |
| EPA gasoline permeability regulations and Ford gas tank design |
1 |
canonical |
| Coors plastic beer bottle project |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston and New York cast-iron water main failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas distribution pipeline corrosion and leaks |
1 |
canonical |
| Residential gas leak in Boston-area home |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pratt & Whitney / General Electric jet engine disc HIP vessel failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `French electrical generator rotor forging failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM PowerPoint executive meetings / TQM training |
1 |
canonical |
| Chevy Bolt EV battery cost breakdown |
1 |
canonical |
| Pole vault pole composite design |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT 3.091 graduate-version proposal (Eagar/Sadoway/Grossman) |
1 |
canonical |
| Vera Kistiakowsky quantum mechanics course (Eagar undergraduate) |
1 |
canonical |
| `1952 T2 tanker fracture off Cape Cod` |
1 |
canonical |
| `WWII ship construction slugging welds` |
1 |
canonical |
| *ambiguous — possibly* `7000-ton forging press casting weld failure` *or* `Aluminum truck wheel press weld crack` *or a new cluster* |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pellini explosion bulge test development` (also `Explosion bulge test (Pelini underwater weld testing)` in the canon — these may be the same cluster) |
1 |
canonical |
| `HY-80 and HY-100 steel development` (also relates to `Nautilus submarine hull material (HY-80)`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Alvin and Sea Cliff deep-ocean research submersible development` |
1 |
canonical |
| *cluster of related canon entries:* `British iron industry wood shortage crisis`, `Early American iron and glass industries—British energy crisis relocation`, `England 16th-17th century deforestation and energy crisis`, and the related `1558 English law against tree-felling for charcoal` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Roman aqueducts` |
1 |
canonical |
| GE GTD-111 / GT-100 superalloy patent dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| Chromalloy HIP rejuvenation with Greek Navy student |
1 |
canonical |
| Falklands War aluminum ship fires (Sheffield, Belknap, JFK) |
1 |
canonical |
| Wright Brothers aluminum-copper aircraft engine |
1 |
canonical |
| NASA Space Shuttle main tank aluminum 2219 / aluminum-lithium |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT steam plant pipe cracking during hot-weld repair |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy 5000-series aluminum superstructure cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Scandium-aluminum baseball bats |
1 |
canonical |
| W-temper aluminum sale and incomplete heat treatment |
1 |
canonical |
| Westinghouse Bettis crack-acceptance welding code |
1 |
canonical |
| Inconel pipe crush-repair proposal (Coast Guard student case, 2014) |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum world production: 45 million tons/year, 40% to beer cans |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum shrinkage at solidification: 6% |
1 |
canonical |
| Three-eighths inch: worst distortion thickness |
1 |
canonical |
| Critical flaw size for structural steel: 1–2 inches |
1 |
canonical |
| Inspection threshold: indications larger than 1/8 inch |
1 |
canonical |
| Stata Center crumpled-paper origin story |
1 |
canonical |
| Ohio automotive supplier emergency call from Honda |
1 |
canonical |
| Rural washing machine failures with potato loads |
1 |
canonical |
| LFM student donut-and-shop-floor consulting method |
1 |
canonical |
| Motorola control chart implementation variance |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel quality-at-no-cost rejection |
1 |
canonical |
| Eugene Grace Bethlehem Steel tonnage-bonus compensation |
1 |
canonical |
| Apollo 13 oxygen regeneration emergency |
1 |
canonical |
| British submarine shipyard piping interference problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Motorola circuit board component shortage |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford Mustang assembly line non-start defect / Motorola Boynton Beach pager manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford F-150 air conditioner assembly constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| Eli Goldratt MIT visit and federal-government constraint claim |
1 |
canonical |
| Consulting engagement with Bruce Sylvester (metallurgical services) |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel mill wet scrap incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Sea wall bolt failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Nine-month delayed hydrogen crack (High Sierras) |
1 |
canonical |
| Hydrogen cracking in welded steel |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston Gas Company buried steel pipe corrosion and gas leaks |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston wooden gas pipes (1880s street light system) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-sealed water pipe failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Arthroscopic knee surgery tool design and materials selection |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney turbine blade |
1 |
canonical |
| Turbine blade quality control theft risk |
1 |
canonical |
| Hallock Campbell AWS definition dispute |
1 |
canonical |
| H.C. Starck Newton tantalum operations |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear Metals Concord depleted uranium extrusion |
1 |
canonical |
| Kuwait depleted uranium contamination |
1 |
canonical |
| WWII ship and tank explosive bonding discovery |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium-clad steel gasoline refinery vessel production |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft engine hydrogen cracking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Hyundai Ulsan shipyard panel line scale |
1 |
canonical |
| Carbon composite filter for precious metal catalyst recovery |
1 |
canonical |
| Sulfuric acid and sugar classroom demonstration incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Tin-bismuth solder steel recycling contamination |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum can recycling contamination problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney vs. British engine bird strike specification |
1 |
canonical |
| F-111 composite radar dome bird strike |
1 |
canonical |
| Metallurgical consulting firm tornado-chicken vacuum chamber experiment |
1 |
canonical |
| Brooklyn Bridge caisson workers - decompression sickness |
1 |
canonical |
| Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel |
1 |
canonical |
| Soft tissue engineering in biomedical materials |
1 |
canonical |
| Chaparral Steel / Gordon Forward — mini-mill labor economics |
1 |
canonical |
| Continuous casting of steel — Japanese development |
1 |
canonical |
| Bao Steel — Chinese government-financed integrated steel |
1 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen's *The Innovator's Dilemma* — steel mill cost data |
1 |
canonical |
| Saugus Ironworks — energy-crisis emigration of British iron |
1 |
canonical |
| Japanese steel manufacturing technology — Tom's 1985 Navy-funded visit |
1 |
canonical |
| Army helicopter rotor casting weld repair (early 1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Glomar Explorer (Soviet submarine recovery) |
1 |
canonical |
| Beryllium copper spark-free tools (mining application) |
1 |
canonical |
| HY-80 nuclear submarine steel |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel price evolution |
1 |
canonical |
| World steel consumption |
1 |
canonical |
| Molybdenum effect on TTT C-curve |
1 |
canonical |
| John Wolfe stainless steel sensitization patent (1940s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Saudi Arabia gas-reduction steel facility |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors bankruptcy |
1 |
canonical |
| Conductive polymers / polyacetylene hype |
1 |
canonical |
| WWII silver-wound magnets from Fort Knox |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Building 20 asbestos liability |
1 |
canonical |
| Sadoway/Allanore carbon-free metal reduction research |
1 |
canonical |
| Charles Martin Hall Niagara Falls Alcoa first reduction plant |
1 |
canonical |
| India cultural gold reserve |
1 |
canonical |
| Platinum jewelry in Asia |
1 |
canonical |
| AT&T regulated monopoly and the transistor |
1 |
canonical |
| Utility LED light bulb rate-base subsidy |
1 |
canonical |
| Cape Wind / Nantucket windmill opposition |
1 |
canonical |
| Rhodesian chromite embargo |
1 |
canonical |
| US copper tubing manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Bombardier aircraft lightning testing - Canadian border incident |
1 |
canonical |
| Norm Augustine socio-engineering 1993 Colorado talk |
1 |
canonical |
| Mike Ashby materials-over-the-ages plot critique |
1 |
canonical |
| Ceramics fever / NIST kitchen-sink talk |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar 1991 Welding Journal Future of Metals article |
1 |
canonical |
| Torpedo tube welding distortion control |
1 |
canonical |
| Farm equipment engine fire (loose bolt) |
1 |
canonical |
| 1985 Ford Aerostar rear axle fatigue failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Cement truck pressure vessel explosion (Pennsylvania) |
1 |
canonical |
| High-strength truck frame welding violations |
1 |
canonical |
| Nautilus submarine hull material (HY-80) |
1 |
canonical |
| Alaska Pipeline construction |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy HSLA Steel Mill Investment |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy Ship Aluminum-Steel Transition Joints - Galvanic Corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Protective Armor Systems bulletproof glass (Western Massachusetts) |
1 |
canonical |
| Ceramic armor development against shaped charges |
1 |
canonical |
| Diamond-coated asphalt tool development |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy aircraft carrier weight gain problem |
1 |
canonical |
| Transmission tower million-ton steel procurement |
1 |
canonical |
| Keystone pipeline material cost ratio |
1 |
canonical |
| `Pennzoil Oil City tank explosion and facility` |
1 |
canonical |
| Titusville Pennsylvania - Edwin Drake first oil drilling (1859) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Prudhoe Bay offshore ice islands` (closest existing; surface-seep framing is new) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Tar sands pond bird kills` |
1 |
canonical |
| Tobacco company metal powder research |
1 |
canonical |
| `China rare earth embargo on Japan` / `2010 China rare earth embargo on Japan` |
1 |
canonical |
| `GE samarium cobalt magnet development` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Mountain Pass rare earth mine closure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Blood diamonds civil war` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Rhodesian chrome embargo` / `Rhodesian chromite embargo and laundering` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Mesabi Range iron ore depletion` (also: `Massabi Range iron ore depletion`, `U.S. iron ore depletion—Mesabi Range`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `US Steel price control by President Kennedy (1962)` / `U.S. Steel Price Rollback` |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel research labs - 1974 employment and 1945-cohort management failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Norm Augustine aircraft cost projection and socio-engineering framing |
1 |
canonical |
| Stout and Doty welding procedure handbook |
1 |
canonical |
| Charlie Brooks textbook martensite cooling curve |
1 |
canonical |
| Shape memory alloy applications (nitinol braces) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Quincy Shipyard barge cracking failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aviation aluminum crankcase weld repair dispute` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Erin Brockovich hexavalent chromium case` |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford Explorer chromic acid plating facility (1990s environmental retrofit) |
1 |
canonical |
| `MIT undergraduate lab chromic acid disposal practice` |
1 |
canonical |
| Zircaloy nuclear fuel cladding (student presentation topic) |
1 |
canonical |
| Davis-Besse nuclear plant |
1 |
canonical |
| Gothic cathedral flying buttresses (student presentation topic) |
1 |
canonical |
| Oklahoma oil derrick blowout fire |
1 |
canonical |
| `1980s refrigerator shelf failures` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Historical water conveyance material evolution` |
1 |
canonical |
| `HDPE pipe fracture on Hudson River barge` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Lead-tin solder ban and plumbing failures (1978)` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Flint Michigan lead in drinking water` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boston hot-work fire-watch regulation and building cost impact` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Samsung Galaxy Note 7 thermal runaway recalls` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Vape pen battery spontaneous ignition` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Skyscraper glass curtain wall panel breakage` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Crane rail forging burst failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Container ship wire rope fracture` |
1 |
canonical |
| Lehigh University five-million-pound structural test machine |
1 |
canonical |
| `Navy topside weight reduction composite structures study` |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's residential high-efficiency boiler chimney |
1 |
canonical |
| Oil refinery pipe lot rejection |
1 |
canonical |
| Allegheny River interstate highway bridge crack |
1 |
canonical |
| 1988 Northeast snowstorm building collapses |
1 |
canonical |
| 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire |
1 |
canonical |
| Oakland Bay Bridge 1989 Loma Prieta partial collapse |
1 |
canonical |
| Nova Scotia sailboat trailer weld failure |
1 |
canonical |
| WWII ship construction slugging welds |
1 |
canonical |
| Jet engine removal bolt design failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Stata Center (Frank Gehry conceptual design) |
1 |
canonical |
| Chevrolet Vega engine removal for spark plug service |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors sliding door van lemon-law case |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel looper program and Lackawanna depreciation case |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing door product center manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Harvard Stadium reinforced concrete (1910) |
1 |
canonical |
| Corning Willow Glass development |
1 |
canonical |
| Glass fiber humidity degradation in fiberglass manufacturing |
1 |
canonical |
| Clayton Christensen *Innovator's Dilemma* (steel mill cost data) |
1 |
canonical |
| Armco Steel Houston benchmarking failure (CF&I Pueblo gate-tour anecdote) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pratt & Whitney WWII manufacturing management story (untold) |
1 |
canonical |
| LFM (Leaders for Manufacturing) project Chaparral case study (early 1990s, with Steve Wheelwright) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel Homer Research Labs (mid-1960s build, post-bankruptcy donation to Lehigh) |
1 |
canonical |
| AISI presidents Orlando resort talk (1991, Tom on why steel matters) |
1 |
canonical |
| German WWII ball bearing factory—critical mass of management |
1 |
canonical |
| Did the metal deform before the weld broke?" — Tom's consulting heuristic |
1 |
canonical |
| 1990 → 0.3 person-hours/ton steel productivity figure |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Materials Department tenure discrimination settlement / tenured-woman case |
1 |
canonical |
| McKinsey consulting interaction |
1 |
canonical |
| 3M Minneapolis MIT fellowship trip (manager-spotting anecdote) |
1 |
canonical |
| England 16th century 17th century deforestation and energy crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Allegheny Ludlum AOD Bearing Failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Andrew Carnegie and Eagar grandfather University of Chattanooga donation |
1 |
canonical |
| Dick Simmons private plane story |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup hydraulic cylinder stress corrosion cracking (Navtech consulting case) |
1 |
canonical |
| Wright brothers' aircraft engine precipitate coarsening (Smithsonian study) |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum-lithium development for Space Shuttle and Boeing 787 |
1 |
canonical |
| Washington Monument aluminum apex |
1 |
canonical |
| Hall-Héroult aluminum refining discovery (1888) |
1 |
canonical |
| Novelis Skooter co-cast Alclad process |
1 |
canonical |
| Iridium engagement ring (Tom's wife) |
1 |
canonical |
| Cannon connector arc tracking fault in electron beam melter |
1 |
canonical |
| 1948 seaplane exfoliation failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Homemade aluminum water-jet fishing boat exfoliation failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Dedham, Massachusetts 30-year-old brass plumbing valve failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Mass General subway station rust removal consult |
1 |
canonical |
| High-strength bridge bolts hydrogen embrittlement in Northeast |
1 |
canonical |
| Warehouse fire sprinkler pipe corrosion (leak-driven oxygen makeup) |
1 |
canonical |
| Mexican airline jet turbine blade hot corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Ford plastic bumper painting failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Millennium cookware hydrogen cracking and Teflon coating |
1 |
canonical |
| Galvanized steel spot welding in automotive assembly |
1 |
canonical |
| Adhesive-bonded automotive door panels failure (1980s–1990s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Chrysler Dodge minivan adhesive bonding problems (early-to-mid 1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lord Corporation rubber-to-steel bonding patent (circa 1900) |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing aircraft skin and wing adhesive bonding |
1 |
canonical |
| Presidential limousine glass armor |
1 |
canonical |
| Aviation carburetor icing failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Canadian Aviation Authority Teflon carburetor coating test |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston Logan Airport deicing fluid transition |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's Teflon frying pan frost adhesion test |
1 |
canonical |
| 1854 Broad Street cholera epidemic |
1 |
canonical |
| Space Shuttle Columbia |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft engine failure litigation (Cambridge courthouse) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility dual-use |
1 |
canonical |
| Space-based chemical laser weapon (Rockwell, 1978) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lester Thurow lecture-circuit economics |
1 |
canonical |
| Edward Tufte information-display pedagogy |
1 |
canonical |
| Codes and standards as a "gold mine |
1 |
canonical |
| Shuttle launch reliability |
1 |
canonical |
| Shuttle payload cost |
1 |
canonical |
| Gas-fired power plant water filter corrosion investigation |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT inconel department griddles fabrication |
1 |
canonical |
| Dayton Walther aluminum truck wheel fatigue case |
1 |
canonical |
| Baseball bat performance study |
1 |
canonical |
| Little League baseball bat cardiac arrest case |
1 |
canonical |
| `USS Sheffield fire (Falkland Islands War)` (also recurs as `HMS Sheffield`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `USS Belknap collision and fire` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Navy aluminum ship cracking` (proposed extension to cover the waffle-membrane steel substitution program) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Nimitz-class carrier weight creep` |
1 |
canonical |
| `LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) aluminum alloy redesign` |
1 |
canonical |
| David Taylor Model Basin aluminum replacement program |
1 |
canonical |
| `Aluminum baseball bat` (also recurs as `Baseball bat aluminum alloy development`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `Australian aluminum bridge doubler plate failure` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Boston Gas Company buried steel pipe corrosion and gas leaks` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Wooden gas distribution pipes` (also recurs as `Boston wooden gas pipes (1880s street light system)`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `U.S. Army Underground Storage Tank Corrosion Study` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing` (also `Corrugated stainless steel gas pipe lightning strike fires`) |
1 |
canonical |
| `2003 Arkansas flexible gas piping class action` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Texas county ban on flexible gas piping` |
1 |
canonical |
| `Massachusetts flexible gas piping regulatory approval threat` |
1 |
canonical |
| `NFPA flexible gas piping product approval renewal deadline` |
1 |
canonical |
| `GE lightning research on stainless steel containers for nuclear waste isolation` |
1 |
canonical |
| GE Pittsfield Lightning Research Center (distribution transformer testing) |
1 |
canonical |
| GE/General Electric aerospace rhenium supply constraint |
1 |
canonical |
| Pennzoil Oil City refinery explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Roman lead plumbing |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead paint poisoning case (Cambridge apartment) |
1 |
canonical |
| Wind turbine ring vortex aircraft encounters |
1 |
canonical |
| Electric Boat Quonset Point pressure-hull welding facility |
1 |
canonical |
| Dow Chemical magnesium price cartel (1946–1975) / Alcoa monopoly and price fixing with Dow Chemical |
1 |
canonical |
| Magnesium under-dashboard automotive components |
1 |
canonical |
| Magnesium automotive paint flaking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval diver thermal protection using magnesium alloy / Navy diver salvage gas generation system (magnesium composite) / Fort Fundy magnesium-graphite composite diving application |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum chloride kitchen reaction (personal anecdote) |
1 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Wear-Ever pure-aluminum cookware |
1 |
canonical |
| Terne plate (lead-coated steel) gas tanks and roofing |
1 |
canonical |
| Residential window flashing corrosion and replacement |
1 |
canonical |
| Church building galvanized handrails and light posts paint failure / 1986 church building galvanized steel handrail paint failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Sandpaper manufacturing high-speed curing |
1 |
canonical |
| Don Sadoway liquid metal battery / Ambri |
1 |
canonical |
| Hawaiian helicopter tour operations |
1 |
canonical |
| Blowout preventer investigations (4-5 cases) |
1 |
canonical |
| Initial cement truck tank explosion and worker leg amputation |
1 |
canonical |
| Robert Merton Sloan-to-Harvard departure |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar three-thousand-spot-welds rhetorical figure |
1 |
canonical |
| Hydrothermal quartz reactor explosion near Chicago |
1 |
canonical |
| Swiss watch industry survival via quartz and luxury bifurcation |
1 |
canonical |
| Hot isostatic press / hydrothermal vessel explosion lineage |
1 |
canonical |
| H.C. Starck Newton facility — MIT vacuum metallurgy spin-off |
1 |
canonical |
| Tesla Nevada gigafactory water siting |
1 |
canonical |
| Aircraft landing gear high-strength steel and inspection |
1 |
canonical |
| Ritchie 2014 cryogenic high-entropy alloy (CrMnFeCoNi) |
1 |
canonical |
| MP35N cobalt-nickel-chrome-molybdenum alloy (Gaylord Smith / International Nickel) |
1 |
canonical |
| Boeing 747 wing-to-fuselage MP35N bolt selection |
1 |
canonical |
| Brain aneurysm clip ferromagnetism controversy |
1 |
canonical |
| Faberware 304 stainless pot magnetism demonstration |
1 |
canonical |
| Army microcrystalline titanium kinetic-energy penetrator program (Schuh) |
1 |
canonical |
| Hadlock platinum eyelid weights for facial reconstruction |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar's copper roof (personal) |
1 |
canonical |
| Concorde maintenance and operational failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Qatar LNG tank explosion and Shell litigation |
1 |
canonical |
| Cleveland LNG explosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Big steel companies decline through market abandonment |
1 |
canonical |
| Generator rotor shaft welding feasibility study (US Steel) |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT Plasma Fusion Center welding project |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel BOF retiree suicide |
1 |
canonical |
| Steel mill worker injuries (1930s-1940s bar rolling) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel forge-shop slag-shoveling anecdote |
1 |
canonical |
| Henry Rowan Inductotherm acquisition and Rowan University endowment |
1 |
canonical |
| Wind turbine shaft clink failure (Dallas) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel Learjet corruption (Allentown airport) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rolls-Royce M250 BLISK (bladed disk) for helicopters |
1 |
canonical |
| Sprague's first law (framing principle, not a case) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bringing New Materials to Market" (1995 Technology Review article) |
1 |
canonical |
| Twenty-year oil reserves industry investment floor |
1 |
canonical |
| National Academy of Sciences Air Force propulsion research committee |
1 |
canonical |
| Baltimore Gas and Electric under-deposit corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| New England Aquarium sea water piping corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| Under-deposit corrosion in cast iron (Hurricane Sandy context) |
1 |
canonical |
| Mormon Temple heat exchanger erosion-corrosion failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Phoenix warehouse accelerated corrosion during construction |
1 |
canonical |
| Boston Navy Yard destroyer boiler pipe weld (stainless-to-chromemoly transition) |
1 |
canonical |
| Seawolf submarine hull cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Nautilus submarine austenitic filler metal foundations |
1 |
canonical |
| Navy under-matching filler metal studies (multiple rounds) |
1 |
canonical |
| Newport News engineering oversight failure (foreshadowed) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lead-acid battery terminal corrosion from road salt |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom's aluminum soldering demonstration failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia |
1 |
canonical |
| Teenage rock-dropping from overpasses |
1 |
canonical |
| Lehigh University welding metallurgy program (1940s–1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Rensselaer welding metallurgy program (Warren Savage) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pipeline Safety Administration buried pipe property verification (2010s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Belmar instrumented scratch test (MIT spinout) |
1 |
canonical |
| Nazi ball bearing factory management failure |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT metallurgy department founding (1888) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel offshore platform lamellar tearing (mid-1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Karl Meyer reheat cracking thesis (Lehigh) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel Charpy bar machining workaround |
1 |
canonical |
| LNG vessel heat treatment coupon substitution and testing failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Pre-stressed concrete core test report fraud (Boston-area lab) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem-vs-US-Steel weathering steel bridge fingerprint |
1 |
canonical |
| Untempered 100 ksi bridge plate (mill processing failure) |
1 |
canonical |
| Submarine and rocket fastener heat-treatment recall |
1 |
canonical |
| General Electric vacuum tube laser repair |
1 |
canonical |
| Avco Everett laser welder demonstrations (early 1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| US Navy particle beam weapons welding research |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet underwater welding program at Paton Institute |
1 |
canonical |
| Soviet Alpha-class titanium submarine creep-fatigue failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Bullet-resistant glass installation failure investigation |
1 |
canonical |
| Residential gas pipeline explosions from plastic pipe use |
1 |
canonical |
| Fighter jet canopy ejection system |
1 |
canonical |
| Asbestos fibers strength measurement |
1 |
canonical |
| ALVIN deep research submarine hull transition |
1 |
canonical |
| Comfort Adams and the founding of the American Welding Society (1921) |
1 |
canonical |
| Building demolition with shaped charges |
1 |
canonical |
| Electrically conductive polymers (polyacetylene) misconception |
1 |
canonical |
| High-temperature superconductor for wind turbine generators |
1 |
canonical |
| Superconducting DC transmission line trial in Manhattan |
1 |
canonical |
| NASA X-33 liquid hydrogen tank failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Military ultra-long-range aircraft requirement |
1 |
canonical |
| V-22 Osprey prototype Ship 2 crash |
1 |
canonical |
| BMW i8 carbon fiber composite quality assessment |
1 |
canonical |
| Wang Laboratories 4K minicomputer (early-1970s MIT lab purchase) |
1 |
canonical |
| Belmar portable hardness tester startup (frictional-sliding yield-strength field instrument) |
1 |
canonical |
| SBIR small-business research mandate (10% federal R&D set-aside, ~1990–present) |
1 |
canonical |
| Jesús del Alamo / Joel Moses "promised land" letter |
1 |
canonical |
| Engineering Council / daycare-center joke |
1 |
canonical |
| You're right too" rabbi parable |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar TQM origin story — Chipman Room undergraduate exchange |
1 |
canonical |
| École Polytechnique as first engineering school (18th century France) |
1 |
canonical |
| West Point (1797) — first US engineering school |
1 |
canonical |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic and the Erie Canal |
1 |
canonical |
| MIT founding (1861/1863/1865) and Course One/Two/Three numbering origin |
1 |
canonical |
| Harvard attempts to acquire MIT (1873–1917) and Gordon McKay trust Supreme Court ruling |
1 |
canonical |
| George Eastman anonymous donation rescuing MIT from post-1917 bankruptcy (Building Six dedication) |
1 |
canonical |
| Harvard Business School founding (1921, Allston) — Carnegie land gift, Frederick W. Taylor faculty |
1 |
canonical |
| Paulson donation to Harvard engineering school (Allston engineering campus across from HBS) |
1 |
canonical |
| Harvard-MIT School of Public Health — 1920s donor-driven name removal |
1 |
canonical |
| Chuck Vest's decision to accept MIT presidency (Dave Ragone advice) |
1 |
canonical |
| Wyman Gordon crankshaft product liability risk |
1 |
canonical |
| 7500-ton forging press weld with 400 sub-welds |
1 |
canonical |
| Decorative doorknob casting (prior student term paper) |
1 |
canonical |
| Japan Steel Works heavy-section forging capability |
1 |
canonical |
| General Aviation Revitalization Act (1994) |
1 |
canonical |
| related to existing clusters — closest matches in the canon are *Nuclear submarine seawater piping corrosion* and *Navy cupro-nickel pipe cracking and compression repair attempt*. The mention here is generic (alloy-class application discussion, not a specific failure case), so it does not constitute a case instance of either cluster. |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval ship recuperator heat exchanger failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Aerospace company gold-nickel braze powder inventory control failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Molybdenum-copper cross-field amplifier radar waveguide braze joint |
1 |
canonical |
| San Diego vacuum brazing furnace zinc contamination disaster |
1 |
canonical |
| Aluminum radiator field brazing development |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM System/360 mainframe helium cooling |
1 |
canonical |
| Eagar engagement ring iridium acquisition (Engelhard / Bob Rose) |
1 |
canonical |
| Plumber silver-brazing cadmium exposure and metal fume fever |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force One friction welding blade-to-disc program |
1 |
canonical |
| Louisiana polymer laboratory production scaling anecdote |
1 |
canonical |
| GE 1950s vacuum tube laser repair |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval Surface Warfare Center particle beam weapon program |
1 |
canonical |
| *figure, not a case* — framing physics anchor for the lecture |
1 |
canonical |
| World Trade Center collapse article |
1 |
canonical |
| MAPP gas discontinuation |
1 |
canonical |
| Elihu Thomson invention of resistance spot welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Automotive spot welding (GM and Ford volumes) |
1 |
canonical |
| Lawrence Livermore plutonium weld observation |
1 |
canonical |
| Avco Everett 25 kW laser welder development |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval Research Laboratory 25 kW laser welder |
1 |
canonical |
| GE titanium compressor case EB porosity (the acetone case) |
1 |
canonical |
| GE SWAC (Spot Welding Adaptive Control) failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Bimetallic bandsaw/hacksaw blade electron beam welding |
1 |
canonical |
| Alcoa Davenport quench-and-temper failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Citicorp Tower |
1 |
canonical |
| Bell Helicopter supplier liability case |
1 |
canonical |
| Johnson & Johnson Tylenol recall |
1 |
canonical |
| Amtrak catenary wire procurement fraud case |
1 |
canonical |
| Destroyer rudder steel preheating logistics case |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Cole |
1 |
canonical |
| Naval Research Lab HY80 laser welding study |
1 |
canonical |
| America's Cup yacht keel beam — 4340 steel welding procedure |
1 |
canonical |
| USS Sea Wolf submarine high-side weld chemistry and HY-100 cracking |
1 |
canonical |
| Inland Steel HSLA development and Navy / Japan technology transfer |
1 |
canonical |
| Quonset Point submarine sections and Soviet satellite reconnaissance |
1 |
canonical |
| 1920s steel bridge repair consulting (MTA/MGH station) |
1 |
canonical |
| Fire sprinkler system plastic pipe failures |
1 |
canonical |
| Turbine blade cooling and thermal barrier coatings |
1 |
canonical |
| Air Force engine research committee and Mach 17 / National Aerospace Plane |
1 |
canonical |
| Niobium silicide intermetallics (Air Force research) |
1 |
canonical |
| Polyurethane insulation fires in homes |
1 |
canonical |
| Roman concrete longevity and volcanic ash chemistry |
1 |
canonical |
| Adobe construction with manure binder (Mexico) |
1 |
canonical |
| Bessemer converter invention (1856) |
1 |
canonical |
| Andrew Carnegie steel empire and philanthropy |
1 |
canonical |
| Linz BOF development (Austria) |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Steel's last open hearth |
1 |
canonical |
| LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) aluminum alloy redesign |
1 |
canonical |
| Roman aqueducts |
1 |
canonical |
| LNG tanker tail shaft fatigue failure, Philippine Sea (1985) |
1 |
canonical |
| Pole vault composite failure analysis |
1 |
canonical |
| Lou Gerstner IBM building access incident |
1 |
canonical |
| IBM Customer Driven Quality / MIT faculty week |
1 |
canonical |
| Vera Kistiakowsky quantum mechanics course |
1 |
canonical |
| Paul Gray on MIT pace and pressure (retirement reflection) |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors MIT distance education welding course (late 1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Stanford tutored video instruction (1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Simone Belmar MMT pipeline mechanical property scratch tester |
1 |
canonical |
| 551 stories |
1 |
canonical |
| 90,000 managers eliminated, no problem escalation |
1 |
canonical |
| Tom Eagar Bethlehem Steel research engineer Charpy machine stopping |
1 |
canonical |
| Corrugated stainless steel tubing |
1 |
canonical |
| U.S. Army Underground Storage Tank Corrosion Study |
1 |
canonical |
| West Virginia Chemical Tank Spill / Charleston Water Crisis |
1 |
canonical |
| Nuclear Reactor Microbiologically Induced Corrosion |
1 |
canonical |
| HMS Copper-Sheathed Naval Vessels |
1 |
canonical |
| Tributyl Tin Naval Anti-Fouling Paint Program |
1 |
canonical |
| Florida high-rise copper-plated stainless steel water piping failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Gold-plated hydrocephalus shunt valve consulting case |
1 |
canonical |
| Quincy Shipyard barge cracking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Admiralty brass heat exchanger plugging failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Titanium heat exchanger silt damage |
1 |
canonical |
| Steinmetz General Electric generator failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 118-foot pressure vessel stress relief |
1 |
canonical |
| Forging press repair weld failure |
1 |
canonical |
| 1985 automotive galvanized steel spot-weld electrode failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Chrysler refrigerated spot-weld electrode cooling proposal (mid-1980s) |
1 |
canonical |
| ONR welding research consortium funding (1980, MIT) |
1 |
canonical |
| General Motors spot welding maintenance study |
1 |
canonical |
| Bethlehem Steel out-of-vacuum electron beam weld trial (Westinghouse, mid-1970s) |
1 |
canonical |
| Siaki camshaft laser heat-treatment cracking failure |
1 |
canonical |
| Amorphous metals development |
1 |
canonical |
| Turbine blade cooling technology development |
1 |
canonical |
| Graphene commercialization hype (Rice/UT Austin/Manchester) |
1 |
canonical |
| Akamai IPO and MIT math professor billionaire |
1 |
canonical |